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Conclusion and Prayer<br />
Thomas Römer *<br />
© Haaf<br />
Some of you have been saying<br />
that you are experiencing a<br />
taste of heaven here. I believe<br />
this is the message of Together<br />
for Europe: heaven and earth<br />
are no longer two separate<br />
worlds, but they have become<br />
one through Jesus Christ, and<br />
we already live this unity in<br />
his name. And we want to experience<br />
heaven on earth: faith,<br />
love, hope. you are you in?<br />
Prayer:<br />
For me Europe has become<br />
much more concrete again during<br />
theses last few days than it<br />
had been. Europe is a continent<br />
of friendship. Friendship is<br />
an important word, and now I<br />
have friends from all over Europe,<br />
from Portugal to Russia,<br />
in Poland, in the United Kingdom,<br />
in France, in Greece. I<br />
should enumerate all countries<br />
you are from. I‘m proud to be<br />
a European, and I have friends<br />
across the whole of Europe.<br />
And I want to invite you to<br />
stand up right now and to commit<br />
ourselves to the living God<br />
in prayer, to the triune God<br />
who is love.<br />
Jesus Christ, we have gathered during these days and dedicated them to you, and we thank<br />
you that you have come and that you have been living in our midst. You are risen from the<br />
dead. Through this the victory at the cross was validated, the victory over sin and separation,<br />
the victory over all powers and principalities that want to keep us from being together, the victory<br />
over death which no longer has the power to separate us from you and from one another.<br />
Jesus Christ, we want to trust you and to be yours. Help us to follow your commandment<br />
to love one another. Help us to follow your commission to live the Gospel in this world and to<br />
spread it.<br />
Your kingdom come. Your kingdom come into our communitites. Your kingdom come into<br />
the churches. Your kingdom come into our peoples in Europe. And your kingdom come especially<br />
into the relationships among us.<br />
We pray for mercy for all the people in Europe, for those who have lived here for a long time<br />
and for those who just arrive.<br />
Jesus Christ, we ask you to stand up in Europe and to work among us.<br />
Amen<br />
* Rev. Thomas Römer, YMCA <strong>Munich</strong>. Steering Committee TfE<br />
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