Week 2, Day 3
+ We draw near to God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.
Silence
Readings
Silence
Creativity
- We believe that questions and theological reflection are important as we learn together and so discern the way forward.
Note down the questions that have been raised for you in the last month.
Offer them to God in prayer
Is any one demanding your attention over the others?
What’s God’s invitation to you in the question?
Are there steps that you need to take as a result of it?
As you share this process and reflect with others in your church and team – are there implications for your common life?
Our God
you call us to a cycle of life
that involves growth, pruning, renewal and new growth.
As we engage our minds with your calling of us
we meet people and situations, issues and questions
that disturb us, provoke us, challenge us, deepen us.
Sometimes the questions can scare us
as they rattle our cages and raise anxieties.
Sometimes the questions can thrill us
as they make possible new things, new directions.
Lord in your mercy,
hold the questions we’re living with today.
Infuse us with your peace
and help us to work with them
so that we become more truly yours, more truly ourselves
and more truly followers of Jesus.
Thank you for the people who help us to reflect well,
and those who give us the courage to deal with the consequences.
Thank you for our fragile communities
in whom you live
and grace with your hope.
Jesus invited us to a full and overflowing life.
Today we again gladly accept that invitation.
Grow us, prune us, whatever it takes
for your commonwealth of love to be known.
Free prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
Lord, in your mercy
Let your kingdom come!