Week 2, Day 2
+ We draw near to God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.
Silence
Readings
Silence
Creativity
- We value courage, creativity and diversity as we try to discover relevant ways of being church in different contexts.
Reflect on the patterns of living expressed in your church community.
How typical are they of patterns lived out in the wider community?
What are the differences?
What can you celebrate?
What is calling a question from you?
Name one new thing that would help your church to become a truer community of God’s people
So much, Lord, so much!
Talents, gifts, personalities, temperaments;
Histories, stories, influences, backgrounds;
All here in this neighbourhood,
this street,
this church.
So much to hold that it weighs us down;
So much to unlock that its potential is overwhelming;
So much to discover that it knows no boundary.
God,
help us to receive this diverse community as your gift to us;
your creativity to celebrate
your people to love
your kingdom come
And help us to see it as you do,
attentive to the parts that need mending
the signs of your coming
the glimpses of redemption
And help us to say ‘Yes!’ at the tops of our voices
to all that you ask us to be and to do.
Free prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
Lord, in your mercy
Let your kingdom come!