How 2.1 Billion Believers can frame “The Conversation”

BECOMING “THE BELOVED COMMUNITY"

#WeAreOne – A Litany

LEADER: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (SMALL GROUP 12-20 CONVERSATION)

PEOPLE: WE ARE ONE

LEADER: Stony the road we trod, bitter the chast'ning rod, felt in the day that hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet, come to the place for which our fathers sighed? (SMALL GROUP 12-20 CONVERSATION)

PEOPLE: WE ARE ONE

LEADER: We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last, where the white gleam of our star is cast. (SMALL GROUP 12-20 CONVERSATION)    

PEOPLE: I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only son our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead; and buried. The third day he arose from the dead’ he ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Church Universal, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. (SMALL GROUP 12-20 CONVERSATION)

LEADER: God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; thou who hast by thy might, led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray.  Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee. Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee.  Shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand, true to our God, true to our native land.  (SMALL GROUP 12-20 CONVERSATION)

ALL: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. (TOWN HALL CONVERSATION)