Prayer for Community

(If you consider yourself part of Watershed, please join me in praying this prayer.)

Heavenly Father,

You have called your followers to a spirit of unity. I pray that within Watershed, we would follow your leading toward a spirit of unity among the entire community. Help us to go beyond hanging out with the people that we know well. Give us the boldness to step away from our comfortable groups and meet those we don't know.

Many of us will need your help with that, Lord. When we see people every Thursday, we can get used to knowing that they are around, and comfortable with not knowing who they are. Break that sense of comfort. Make each of us uncomfortable with people being un-met and not brought into our community.

I pray that you will make Watershed one community, with one purpose: to go deeper with you and with each other. Let our unity and the depth of our authentic relationships with each other be evident and attractive to those outside the community, also, so that they want to join this community.

Thank you for the community you have already created within Watershed. Please continue to strengthen and refine it, so that this community will bring you glory.

Amen.