This expression of THE CREED & LORD'S PRAYER for a modern liturgy is the best I have seen in ages. I really like them. Charles Scott May
THE CREED
We believe in God, who made the world, loves it and smiles upon it,
We believe in Jesus Christ, who has shown us the human face of God, and a love that
refused to be limited, who calls us to a life that even death cannot end. We believe in the Holy Spirit through whom God reaches us, surprising, prompting and questioning us; who is the life breath of creation; and the source of nurture, humor and hope.
We believe in ourselves as people made in the divine image, capable of great creativity
and great destruction, but called to choose between them.
We believe that Christ leads us now, calling us to a life that is absurd by the standards of the world; calling us to resist evil, including anything that would degrade or destroy another and to create and protect love, justice, freedom and peace.
How real! How superior to "God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten not made, of one substance with the Father," words that reflect quite well the heresy battles of the fourth century, but which leave the modern worshipper with a glazed-over look.
THE LORD'S PRAYER
God, lover of us all, Most Holy One, help us to create what you want for us here.
Give us today enough for our needs. Forgive our weak and deliberate offences just
as we must forgive others when they hurt us.
Help us to resist evil and to do what is good;
For we are yours, endowed with your power to make the world whole."
Charles Scott May
The Barclay
Atlanta, Georgia