Prayers for Forgiveness for Climate Sin

Prayers for Forgiveness for Climate Sin

One voice: Climate Change is prompted by our sinfulness:

  • our greed, gluttony and lust for more
  • our pride and arrogance
  • our anger, envy and vanity
  • our dishonesty and maliciousness
  • our indifference and laziness

All: Creator God, forgive

One Voice: Climate Change is fed by our failure to accept limits:

  • of the Earth’s capacity
  • to consumerism and excessive materialism
  • to an economy that demands insatiability
  • to our crude desires
  • to our human aspirations

All: Saviour God – forgive

One Voice: Climate Change is enhanced by our falling short of our deeper potential:

  • to respect all life
  • to live compassionately
  • to think beyond the short-term
  • to seek peace through justice
  • to express solidarity with the vulnerable

All: Inspiring God – forgive

One Voice: Climate Change is addressed when we actively work to change our economic lifestyles:

  • campaigning for fairness and equality
  • putting community before self
  • sharing resources and cooperating together
  • acting to regenerate the Earth
  • recognising the deep holiness of life itself

All: Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer God: In the face of Climate Change forgive us our wrongdoings; challenge our apathy; strengthen our resolve; inspire us with hope; and enthuse us with love to make a world of difference now and for ever.  Amen.

 

[Martyn Goss, May 2016]