Race & Grace Mondays

MONTH ONE

One Race

Kick off your first four Mondays investing prayer of all kinds around the simple but powerful truths of our belonging to one race - the human race. Each equally made in God's image. Kinfolk created by God to evolve & express great diversity. This is the starting place of all that is beautiful - And the starting place of all that is challenging. Come, let us pray.

First Monday

Imago Dei

Scriptures: One Two

Prayer Points

Open the eyes of us all to recognize the reality of a loving & ever-present God as our creator.
Deepen our understanding that we're all made in God's image & are called to honor that image by treating in one another with love & dignity.
Deliver us from that which would lead us to devalue & demean any image-bearer, & empower us to embody God's hope & intentions in how we relate to one another, especially across lines of ethnic diversity.
Let holy repair & reconciliation be invited into the arenas where our nation has historically failed to honor God's image across racial lines.

Second Monday

KINFOLK

Prayer Points

With God's help, may all of humanity acknowledge our kinship to one another through a common bloodline & lineage from our shared parentage.
May God inspire & embolden people from all walks of life to express this revelation that we are all kinfolk - & to do so in ways that confront & help put to rest lies of racial supremacy.
May we all accept our shared identity to belong to & be like God our Father, & receive our shared responsibility to steward this world in ways that are merciful, just, & loving toward one another across all tribal, socio-economic & ethnic lines.
Help the Church embrace its calling to help bring 'on earth as in heaven' in arenas of society still disfigured by racism.

Scriptures: One Two

Third Monday

DIVERSITY

Scripture: One

Prayer Points:

Help us recognize, understand & embrace God's purposes in creating humanity to evolve in ways that express wildly diverse ethnicities & cultures.
Instead of color-blindness, help us acknowledge & value ethnic diversity, & seek to see & respond to the unique ways people of color have long been profoundly impacted by racism.
We're called to be a mosaic, not a melting pot. Father, teach the whole of our society to honor, integrate & celebrate rather than deny, mask or assimilate our ethnic & cultural differences.
Give us courage to actively pursue educational & personal relationships across ethnic lines, & to position ourselves to stand in solidarity in the work to end all forms of racism still at work in stratums of our society.

Fourth Monday

FOCUS Darling

Inspiration

Prayer Points:

Choose one prayer point that resonates with you the most from content in each of the last three Mondays. Let those three prayer points & scripture passages inspire prayers directed into these four arenas:

The Nation
Your City
The Church
Your Own Heart