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Today's City reading:

Week 1, Day 2

Genesis 11:1-9

At one time, the whole Earth spoke the same language. It so happened that, as they moved out of the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled down. They said to one another, ‘Come, let’s make bricks and fire them well.’ They used brick for stone and tar for mortar. Then they said, ‘Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower that reaches Heaven. Let’s make ourselves famous so we won’t be scattered here and there across the Earth.’ GOD came down to look over the city and the tower those people had built. GOD took one look and said, ‘One people, one language; why, this is only a first step. No telling what they’ll come up with next – they’ll stop at nothing! Come, we’ll go down and garble their speech so they won’t understand each other.’ Then GOD scattered them from there all over the world. And they had to quit building the city. That’s how it came to be called Babel, because there GOD turned their language into ‘babble’. From there GOD scattered them all over the world.

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Week 4, Day 3

+ We draw near to God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.

 

Silence

 

Readings

 

Silence

 

Commitment

 

  • We are committed to seeking God's kingdom in the inner city, both by planting churches and by working in partnership with others in mission.

 

The Bible gives wonderful images of the kingdom - yeast in dough, salt, light.

When you think about the signs of the kingdom in your neighbourhood, what images come to mind?

Write them down.

Today, do something to symbolise the coming kingdom in your area - shake a packet of wild flower seeds over waste land; have a blitz on litter in one area; brighten something up with a lick of paint; go and stand and pray somewhere which has known pain and sorrow recently .... feel free to add your own initiative here .....

 

Lord you surprise us in so many ways!

A smile from a person we hadn't even noticed;

A flower defying the ugliness around it;

A laugh heard from an open window;

The scent of a curry floating down the road;

The glory of a sunset lighting up the flats.

You are God!

You care for each person living here.

You love us overwhelmingly

and passionately.

You have invited us to be your people

of salt and light

and smiles and beauty

and joy and fragrance

a people who reflect your glory.

 

And you have invited us to work together

with people like us and people not like us.

Lord, show us what your

kingdom shaped communities

can look like here;

encourage us in the building of them,

and lead us into deeper ways

of faithful and risky living.

 

In our yes to you,

keep our eye on the ball

on your love and purpose

on your touch and word

on your life and energy

for that is all we have

and all we need.

Thank you Jesus.

 

Free prayer

 

The Lord's Prayer

 

Lord, in your mercy

Let your kingdom come!

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