Recalling how God raised up John and Charles Wesley to preach the Gospel
And respond to social need in their time and place,
We commit ourselves, under God and empowered by his grace,
to work together to preach the Gospel and respond to need around the world in our time.
That means that, by the help of the Holy Spirit
We accept God’s purposes for us
And the call to love and serve God in all we do.
Christ has many services to be done
- Some we can do as individual churches, others can only be done well when we work together
- Some demand that we give of our resources, others demand a readiness to receive resources and people from other places
- Some demand that we work out formal arrangements, others may thrive through informal links
- Some will come naturally to us and give us pleasure, others will challenge all we hold dear
Yet the power to do all these things is given in Jesus Christ, who strengthens us.
Response:
Eternal God, in your faithful and generous love
You call us to share in your mission to the world.
In obedience, we hear and accept your call upon us
And pledge ourselves to work together, that the world may believe.
As Churches around the world and as individual Christians
We willingly offer all we have and all we are to serve God’s people and bring the Kingdom closer.
We offer to serve you, as and where you choose
and ask that your grace be showered on us that we may accomplish your will.
This prayer we ask in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen
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