First: Look over your bulletin (if you have it) Where did you experience movement of thought, feeling or soul during the worship service? Do you think those movements were coincidence or might they be part of God's activity?
Questions to think or write about:
Has your intellect ever gotten in the way of your sense of wonder?
How does a need to know the specifics about a situation hinder your trust that it is "real" or "valid"? (Sometimes the reality of the situation isn't clear until you become a part of it).
Sometimes you have to touch (or be touched by) the experience before it takes root in your understanding. If you don't reach out or step out you will never become a participant in what might be something magnificent and miraculous.
When you have felt a "nudge" to step into an activity, have you set aside the need to know all of the details and possible repercussions of that action?
For reflection:
Imagine yourself in the group huddled in fear behind the locked door. How might you have responded at the Lord's appearance?
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Preparing for Discovering Discipleship
Let's think about "discovery".
You discover something that is there, often hidden beneath the surface of what is apparent. The object to be discovered is "there" whether the seeker can see it or not. Something is there to be revealed. Then an "aha" occurs. There it is. It was there all along, and now it has been discovered.
Each one of the baptized children of God is called and empowered to walk in Christ's Name. You have the power to reveal Christ to another person everywhere you go. This can happen with or without your conscience initiative, of course. But intentionally seeking to discover our miraculous and bold role in discipleship changes daily living from ordinary to extraordinary.
Through the Holy Spirit, God nudges you along your path of opportunities to love and serve others. As a discoverer you are more likely to pay attention to opportunities to serve that would otherwise be missed due to preoccupation with other things.
When you discover more about what God wants to do with and through your hands, mouth and feet, you are becoming more Christlike.
You discover something that is there, often hidden beneath the surface of what is apparent. The object to be discovered is "there" whether the seeker can see it or not. Something is there to be revealed. Then an "aha" occurs. There it is. It was there all along, and now it has been discovered.
Each one of the baptized children of God is called and empowered to walk in Christ's Name. You have the power to reveal Christ to another person everywhere you go. This can happen with or without your conscience initiative, of course. But intentionally seeking to discover our miraculous and bold role in discipleship changes daily living from ordinary to extraordinary.
Through the Holy Spirit, God nudges you along your path of opportunities to love and serve others. As a discoverer you are more likely to pay attention to opportunities to serve that would otherwise be missed due to preoccupation with other things.
When you discover more about what God wants to do with and through your hands, mouth and feet, you are becoming more Christlike.
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