{"id":71756,"date":"2024-06-29T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/prayer-during-election-campaign-sunday-30-june\/"},"modified":"2024-06-29T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T17:18:00","slug":"prayer-during-election-campaign-sunday-30-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/prayer-during-election-campaign-sunday-30-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer during election campaign: Sunday 30 June"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Each Sunday in the run up to the UK general election on Thursday 4 July, Churches across Scotland have been praying for candidates, voters, and all engaged in the democratic process.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Church leaders from across Scotland, including the Primus, the Most Rev Mark Strange, have offered words that may be used. This Sunday, they continue to \u201cencourage Christians in Scotland to engage actively, constructively, and charitably in the democratic process of the General Election\u201d with this prayer:<\/p>\n

God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
\nMaker of heaven and earth
\nAnd of all things visible and invisible.
\nWe turn to you in search of wisdom for our times
\nAnd the assurance that, in all things,
\nYou remain sovereign and ruler over all.
\nLord, in your mercy,
\nHear our prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n

You are sovereign and ruler over all
\nAnd so, in the discerning of who might best govern our nation,
\nWe turn to you once more.
\nGrant to us, and to all who seek your will,
\nA desire to see good governance established
\nIn the interests of all who inhabit these lands.
\nLord, in your mercy,
\nHear our prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n

You are concerned for the interests of all
\nAnd you deny to no one the dignity and integrity
\nThat belong to all who are made in your image.
\nGrant to us a concern for all who stand on the margins of society
\nAnd the courage to affirm their dignity and integrity
\nAnd so to stand in solidarity with them.
\nLord, in your mercy,
\nHear our prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n

You stand in solidarity with us,
\nEven through Jesus Christ
\nYour Word made flesh who lived amongst us.
\nGrant to us the ongoing commitment to pray for, and to engage with,
\nThose who are elected to govern in our name
\nThat we might see our society better reflect the Kingdom that is to come.
\nLord, in your mercy,
\nHear our prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n

Signed:
\nMost Rev. Mark Strange, Primus, on behalf of the College of Bishops, Scottish Episcopal Church
\nRt. Rev. Dr Shaw Paterson, Moderator of the General Assembly, Church of Scotland
\nMost Rev. Leo Cushley, Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, Roman Catholic Church
\nCol. Sylvia Hinton, Secretary for Scotland, Salvation Army
\nAdwoa Burnley, Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
\nRev. Colin Brown, Moderator, United Free Church of Scotland
\nRev. Callum Macleod, Moderator, Free Church of Scotland
\nRev. Lindsey Sanderson, Moderator, United Reformed Church (Scotland)
\nRev. Dr Martin Hodson, General Director, Baptist Union of Scotland
\nRev. Mark Slaney, District Chair, Methodist Church (Scotland)
\nRev. Ruairidh MacRae, Chair, Congregational Federation in Scotland
\nPastor Chris Gbenle, Provincial Pastor, Province of Scotland, Redeemed Christian Church of God
\nRt. Rev. Kenneth Nowakowski, Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family of London<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each Sunday in the run up to the UK general election on Thursday 4 July, Churches across Scotland have been praying for candidates, voters, and all engaged in the democratic process. Church leaders from across Scotland, including the Primus, the Most Rev Mark Strange, have offered words that may be used. This Sunday, they continue […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}