Lord we thank you for how you have blessed each of the six presenters at this table—for the gifts you have given them
and for each of the people in this room—for calling them to proclaim your word in the places you have put them.
We come before you with ‘epistemic humility’—
realizing that we are finite beings,
and that what we know is a gift of revelation from you.
We follow your Son, the one who is both priest and prophet—
we hear the call to follow and live out our discipleship to him
by echoing his cry for purer religious leadership, his discontent with ritual that is empty and detached.
Infuse once again our actions, our habits, our practices, with your truth, your justice, your beauty.
You also bless us with food, and with the fellowship we will now share around it. Thank you for these gifts from your hand.
We pray through Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
—my prayer before lunch at the Exploring the Emerging Church seminar at the Calvin Symposium on Worship
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Forgive us for turning faith into a cognitive accomplishment.
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