Here’s a confession I just wrote for the 2nd Sunday in Lent, Year B, based on the Revised Common Lectionary readings Mark 8:31-38, Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16, and Romans 4:13-25. We’ll use it this Sunday for the praise service at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa. Feel free to modify and use however you’d like if it’s helpful!
Confession & Promise of Forgiveness
L: Jesus calls us to deny ourselves.
C: Yet we trust in our own works rather than in God’s grace.
L: Jesus calls each of us to take up our cross.
C: Yet rather than allow our selfishness and sin to be put to death, we cling to what we know.
L: Jesus calls us to follow him.
C: Yet we fear where faith will lead and what it might change in our lives.
L: In this moment of silence, we confess the sin that separates us from one another and from God.
Silence for reflection & self-examination
L: People of God, hear this good news. God’s covenant with us is true. God is faithful even when we fail. Through the Holy Spirit, God gives us the gift of faith and makes us righteous. Believe in the good news that you are set free to live as children of God.
C: Amen. Thanks be to God!