Lord's Prayer worship and prayer
This was writtend for the London School of Theology end-of-year Communion service. I've been thinking and reading a bit about the Lord's Prayer, and trying to pray it every day, so it felt natural to try and create a short time of prayer and worship which uses the different lines as inspiration for going deeper with God.
The idea is simply to read a line of the prayer together, and then the leader encourages the congregation to participate in various actions of prayer and worship. If you are not sure whether people will immidiately join in with 'free prayers' from the congregation, you could prime a few people to be prepared to start things off.
There is a part where people turn to the person next to them - again, you may have to adapt this depending on how comfortable you think your congregation will be with this. It then moves into two silent sections of prayer, and at the end I am suggesting you sing the final 'doxology' part. I've written a simple setting in Bb - the music is attached for you to download. The idea is that the music is 'unfinished', ending on the F chord, which could then lead you into another song in Bb seamlessly. But you could use another setting, or write your own.
Proper 12, Ordinary/Lectionary 17 (Year C)
Musicians to lead singing at end
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The worship group began with a solo and then built it up with more voices and instruments. We then led into 'To be in Your Presence'
It was beautiful!! Earlier I had used the 'Hands' prayers which went down very well - most joined in!!
A great way to encourage experimental and innovative prayer approaches.
Thank you!!