The resources on this page will help your congregation
By Rev. Kenneth L. Pennings
Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists
This litany is especially appropriate with Holy Communion.
First Voice: We are fearfully and wonderfully made.
All: God has revealed to us that homosexuality in not a sin to be confessed…
Second Voice: Or a sickness to be cured…
First Voice: But is a natural human condition.
All: While some would restrict us from the table of the Lord…
Second Voice: From church membership…
First Voice: From church leadership…
Second Voice: From ordination…
First Voice: From professional ministry positions…
Second Voice: From jobs…
First Voice: From marriage…
All: Because of their restricted view of the Bible…
Second Voice: Their restricted view of truth…
First Voice: And their restricted view of reality…
Second Voice: We welcome all to the Table of the Lord.
All: We say to all who are excluded because of skin color, physical and mental ableness…
First Voice: Income level, marital status…
Second Voice: Gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation…
All: “Be excluded no more!”
First Voice: We are stretching out our hands to those who have been stereotyped, stigmatized, labeled, and assigned to the margins of church and society, saying…
Second Voice: In the name of Jesus, partake of the body and blood of our Lord…
First Voice: Join our churches…
Second Voice: Lead our churches…
First Voice: Retain your jobs…
Second Voice: Marry your life partners!
All: Because we are all God’s beloved children…
First Voice: We will live, laugh, love and lead…
Second Voice: With integrity, dignity, faithfulness, gratitude and joy!
All: Amen!
From
A PLACE IN GOD’S HEART, A PLACE AT CHRIST’S TABLE:
WORSHIP RESOURCES FOR THE WELCOMING CHURCH MOVEMENT
David Lohman, editor
Unless otherwise noted, permission is granted to reprint individual selections for congregational use. Published by the Institute for Welcoming Resources, a program of the National LGBTQ Task Force.
www.WelcomingResources.org
A Place in God’s Heart [PDF]
A Place in God’s Heart: A Place at God’s Table is an archive of liturgies and music from the ecumenical Welcoming Church movement. It was published in honor of the Rev. Ann B. Day and Donna Enberg, former ONA program leaders in the Open and Affirming Coalition.