"Grant, O God, that no false teaching may ever have any power to deceive us or to seduce us from the truth. Grant, O God, that we may never listen to any teaching which would encourage us to think sin less serious, vice more attractive, or virtue less important;
Grant, O God, that we may never listen to any teaching which would dethrone Jesus Christ from the topmost place; Grant, O God, that we may never listen to any teaching which for its own purposes perverts the truth.
So grant that all our lives we may know, and love, and live the truth;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
From Prayers for the Christian Year by William Barclay (Harper ChapelBooks, 1964), emphasis added.
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