Leader: We hear the words that Paul wrote and know that it is true of us today.
All: I am…
Leader: filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.
All: I am…
Leader: filled with envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.
All: I am…
Leader: a gossip, a slanderer, a God-hater, insolent, arrogant and boastful.
All: I am …
Leader: someone who invents new ways of doing evil, disobeys their parents, is senseless, faithless, heartless and ruthless.
All: We know God’s righteous decree and know that we fall short. We are broken and we hold this brokeness over our heads as if we can do something about it.
Have mercy.