VERSION A Leader: “Then [Jesus] said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe… Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” ALL: Though we have not seen him, we love him. Though we …
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Leader: Who has come in the fullness of time to make us adopted children of God?ALL: Jesus, who is our Redeemer! Leader: Who has come to save his people from their sin?ALL: Jesus, who is Emmanuel, “God with Us”! Leader: Who has come to bring joy for all peoples?ALL: Jesus, …
Leader: If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. ALL: For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him …
Leader: Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.ALL: For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over …
Leader: For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.ALL: For we have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” Leader: The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,ALL: and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow …
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Leader: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. ALL: In love he predestined us for …
Leader: Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing …
Leader: To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever.ALL: Amen. Leader: Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced …
Leader: Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, …
Leader: Jesus said to his disciples, “Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just …