Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all.
Father and God, we confess to You now that nations of the secular West have embraced the heresy of neutrality, pretending that they can govern themselves without reference to Your will. Father, we acknowledge that this false teaching is so pervasive that even many Christians have been influenced by it. And so we confess to You the sin of secularism, the sin and folly of thinking that constitutional arrangements are capable of keeping the Lordship of Jesus Christ at bay.
We know, Father, that if we regard iniquity in our own midst, or in our own hearts, this prayer will be ineffectual
. So we confess to You that we have compromised with the seductive lie of neutrality, particularly in our lack of wisdom and discernment when we watch the morality plays that the world produces, and which we have tended to think is just harmless entertainment.
And also Father, we confess our other individual sins to You now—and Selah . . . We do this in the gracious name of the Lord Jesus, and amen.
God loves to forgive His people. He lifts you out of the swamp, and places you on firm ground. He takes you and sets you on high ground. As His minister, I therefore declare that your sins are forgiven through Christ.
Congregation: Thanks be to God!