Let’s be painfully honest: most churches and most Christians are pretty ineffectual in living our faith on a daily basis.

Quick diagnosis: we either don’t try much, or we try to do it all ourselves.

Classic prescription: comes at the end of a formal version of worship called Word and Table: Service One —

Eternal God,

Grant that we may go into the world

in the strength of your Spirit,

to give ourselves for others,

in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.

— The United Methodist Hymnal, p. 11