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ELCA Presiding Bishop's Call to 50 Days of
Prayer
Dear sisters
and brothers in Christ,
"Marked
with the cross of Christ forever, we are claimed, gathered,
and sent for the sake of the world." We are an evangelizing
church, and this mission flows out of a life attentive to
God’s Word and rooted in unceasing prayer for the Spirit's
life-giving work with the Word. In the seven weeks leading
to the start of the ELCA Churchwide Assembly on August 17, I
invite you to join in 50 days of renewed and focused prayer
around the Scriptures that will be used at the assembly,
when your co-workers in the Gospel are daily gathered,
centered and sent into mission.
The accompanying Scriptures, prayers and songs are a
resource you can use in small groups, in individual
devotions or as a congregation-wide initiative. As you
gather around God's Word, I ask you to pray especially for
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, for those who
will gather in Minneapolis, for decisions to be made, and
for faithfulness in discerning those directions to which God
is calling this evangelizing church in mission and service
for the sake of the world.
In God's
grace,
Mark S.
Hanson
Presiding Bishop |
