The following originally appeared as part of "Rooted and Established in Love—Week 2: The Dying Tree."
Call to Worship
On this Lord’s day, we, as beloved and chosen people of God,
are graciously called into this place for worship.
Christ, who is our Redeemer, our Savior, healer, and giver of life,
beckons our community of faith to come together
and lift our individual and corporate voices to our Lord.
It is by God’s gracious invitation that we are called to worship.
So, people of God,
we are invited to come to worship not because we ought to,
but because we may;
we come and worship not because we are righteous,
but because we acknowledge our own sinfulness;
we come and worship not because we are strong,
but because we are weak and in need of God’s grace;
we come and worship not because we are whole,
but because we are broken and long for Christ’s restoration.
—Kathryn Roelofs © 2025 ReformedWorship.org, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
