Lutheran Prayers
The Good Friday bidding prayer in the Evangelical Worship book used by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America reads as follows:
- Let us pray for the Jewish people, the first to hear the word of God.
- Silent prayer.
- Almighty and eternal God,
- long ago you gave your promise to Abraham and your teaching to Moses.
- Hear our prayers that the people you called and elected as your own
- may receive the fulfillment of the covenant's promises.
- We ask this through Christ our Lord.
- Amen.
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