An Outreach of Conroy Family Ministries

Barclay's Prayer

O God, you are the fountain of all truth, we ask you to protect your church from all false teaching.

Protect the Church

From all teaching and preaching which would destroy men’s faith.

From all that removes the old foundations

Without putting anything in their place

From all that confuses the simple

That perplexes the seeker.

That bewilders the way-fairing man;

And yet, as the same time protect the Church

From the failureto face with new truth;

From the devotion to words and ideas

Which the passing of years has

Rendered intelligible,

From all intellectual cowardice

And from all mental lethargy and sloth.

O God, send to your Church teachers

Whose minds are wise with wisdom;

Whose hearts are warm with love,

Whose lips are eloquent with truth.

Send to your Church teachers

Whose desire is to build and not to destroy;

And yet gentle with the simple,

Who strenuously exercise the intellect.

And who yet remember that the heart

Has resources of its own.

Give to your Church teachers and preachers who can make known the Lord Christ to others because they know Him themselves; give to your Church hearers, who being freed from prejudice, who will follow truth as blind men long for light.

This we ask from Jesus Christ the Lord.

Amen.