This litany is for use in a small group or corporate setting.  Feel free to use this, as long as Everyday Liturgy is acknowledged. 

Responsive Reading

John 15.8-11; Luke 14.27-32 ;Matthew 28.16-20

L: If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

All: By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.  As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

L: If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

All: These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

L: Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.  For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?  

All: Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.'

L: Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

All: So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

L: After he was raised, Jesus said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

All: Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.

L: And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Directed Prayer

God Almighty, you sent your one and only Son to be our saviour, now and forever.  In our salvation we have found the call to be disciples, and as we walk with you to bring others along in discipleship with You.  We are your community of disciples, O God.

Let us pray for ourselves, that we may live, move, and have our being in the Jesus Christ.

Let us pray for each other, that we may grow more Christ-like each day.

Let us pray for our local churches---may Christ intercede for this community with compassion, love, and forgiveness.

Let us pray for all religious communities, that we become together the Body of Christ in the radical unity that is found only in Christ.

Christ, you have instructed us to go and make disciples of all nations, teaching them all that you have commanded.

Let us pray that we become the disciples that Christ has created us to be.

Let us pray for God's mercy on those we disciple.  Ask Christ that we would be a witness to all people, and that we would proclaim the good news of Christ: that he came in human likeness, was crucified and died, that he rose again, and that he is King over all the earth.

Christ is with us until the end of the age.   He has given us the responsibility to be his physical presence on earth until he returns.

Let us pray that we would do as Christ did, that we would not forget the orphan and the widow, the poor and the broken, the possessed and the suffering, the rich and the worldly.

Let us pray that we would be light in dark places.

Let us pray that we would be Christ to others.

Christ's will is that everyone be saved and no one be lost.  You draw us to yourself by prayer and confession.  Grant that we may so follow Christ in love that our lives may help others and our weakness never hinder them.  

Let us pray that we would make disciples of all nations, and as we build a community of disciples we work toward the goal of your coming Kingdom.