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Thanksgiving - Lament - Confession

This is a deceptively simple process. Here we replace the classic beginning in a mainstream church (confession) or a free-flowing service (prayer / praise) with one that moves from thanksgiving through lament into confession.
Developed in response to our need to help people connect with God and their emotions, this is a prayer sequence that we often use.
Thanksgiving has the benefit of helping people connect with their relationship with God (because it switches the relationship part of the brain on); lament helps people stay out of a sense of unreality by being real about things that are painful; the approach doesn't wallow there but it moves into confession which breaks down the barriers between us and God and each other.