Week 2, Day 5
+ We draw near to God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.
Silence
Readings
Silence
Creativity
- We believe in discouraging dependency and developing indigenous leadership within maturing churches that will have the capacity to sustain and reproduce themselves.
Visualise people in your church community
Which of them have been catalysts for community growth?
Who has been influential in recent decisions?
How is leadership being exercised?
Think of one thing that’s happened involving others in the church for which you can give thanks.
Loving Lord
you built your church with a mixed bag of people
gentle, impulsive, schooled and uneducated
men, women, young and old
and somehow through it all
you formed a community
charged with loving the enemy
welcoming the stranger
living with values
that others laugh at,
and all this so that the world might be redeemed.
We are part of that mixed bag
and while we struggle with its clashes
we rejoice in its diversity
and we’re committed to it
because we’ve seen you at work
doing impossible things
in this crucible of love.
Help us to be attentive to those around us
who can be
holders of hope
makers of peace
catalysts for change
who can help shape our future life in good ways.
And help us, Lord,
to help them be all that you call them to be.
Free prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
Lord, in your mercy
Let your kingdom come!