Eat, Pray, Love…Work A Labor Day Worship Experience Work – you can’t live with it; you can’t live without it. Funny how we take a day off work to celebrate…work! Happy Labor Day! Go around the room talking about the work that each of you are doing – or, if currently unemployed or retired – [...]
"What if we opened the church (property) to the community?" I asked this question in a slightly different form ("What if we ‘gave’ our church building back to the community?) a few weeks ago in a worship service as we talked about living out the revolutionary love of Christ. The discussion started then…and continued this [...]
What kind of People are we Called to Be? A Holistic People Vision: A community of LIFE! groups living in and out God’s revolutionary LOVE! where people are being transformed toward wholeness. Have someone in the group guide the group prayer by naming a type of wholeness then allowing the group to spend 30 seconds [...]
What kind of People are we Called to Be? A people of Revolutionary LOVE! Open with a word of prayer asking God to help you do more than learn about love – ask God to fill you with God’s love. DISCUSS "love" Talk about its different meanings in different contexts. Try to distinguish between the [...]
August Series – What kind of church are we called to be? This Sunday, I am planning on taking us on a broad sweep overview of "the people of God" through the Bible. Sometimes we look so carefully at the trees that we don’t see the forest. This will be a "big picture" overview of [...]
Holy No’s: Rightly Focused Protest…deepens our understanding of process Open with a time of prayer asking God to show you the areas of your life and our lives together that need the correction of God’s Word. Before we begin to discuss any more about social justice, let’s understand and agree that ultimately God is the [...]
Holy No’s: Rightly Focussed Protest…Reframes Open with a time of prayer and a willingness to be humble and open to how God wants to reshape us and "re-frame" our lives. Read the following and discuss: "Language is a tool, just like any of the tools human beings have invented. Like any tool–a knife, a screwdriver, [...]
We have just concluded "They Like Jesus, But not the Church." So where to from here? The challenge of that series was to look for ways to move outside the "bubble" of the church and befriend some unchurched people. Then let God love them through you in such a way that we as the Church [...]
"They Like Jesus, But not the Church" Sunday 3:"The church is male dominated and oppresses females." This week we continue listening to the voices of those who are not attending church to discover some of their reasons and to see what we as the church can do to become more like Jesus. Begin with a [...]
Hearing God Through Scripture (continued) This past week, we practiced the Ignatian method of hearing God through Scripture. This next week, we pause to take a hard, honest look at inspiration, truth and what we mean when we claim that God speaks through Scripture – or that Scripture is God’s Word. How we understand and [...]
