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Spiritual Formation Kit
DIY Bible study
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Intro
After pondering the Scripture passage for this week's worship gathering, the staff of Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community put together this spiritual formation kit for groups and individuals to use.
We hope that it will encourage transformation as you encounter God's voice in fresh ways through the Bible; connection as you talk and pray together; and interaction as the sermons become less of a Sunday morning monologue and more of a week-long community conversation.
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Liturgy
Frame your time together with prayer.
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Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
Follow this link to center your hearts and minds with silence, the responsive prayers, and/or music. Read and discuss this week's passage from Luke instead of the passages suggested by Common Prayer. After discussing the passage with the questions below, close your time with prayer for each other and the benediction.
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This week's text
Click to hear this reading & reflection produced by Megan Lindsey
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Reflection Questions
Guide discussion with these questions or ask your own.
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| Who is the foreigner
in your land?
What are some thoughts or feelings that are evoked by the Bible's language about deafness, blindness, and physical disabilities? How were they understood in their original context? Are they understood differently today?
Where does your life intersect with those who are poorer or who are living with disabilities? If it doesn't intersect, why not?
What emotions well up
as you stand at the doorway with the 'others' in front and the familiar at
your back? Will your party
become more awkward or more jubilant?
As you eat your meals
this week ask God to show you how to expand your dinner party circle to include
the 'others' - those who may not be able to repay your hospitality. |
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Stay Tuned
SFK will resume February 27 with a special Lenten devotional prepared by Dr. Steve Tuell!
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| Each week, this
devotional for the forty days of Lent will consider passages, mostly from the
Hebrew Bible, that stress God’s love for diversity. Each weekday the devotional reading will
consider one particular aspect of that week’s Scripture readings, concluding
with a prayer.
Our emphasis throughout
will be not so much on the negative—that racism and exclusion are unacceptable
(although of course they are!)—but on the positive: that God has created us in
all our racial and cultural and sexual
diversity, and that God loves and values us in and for our differences, not in
spite of them.
On each Sunday, the
Gospel for that day from the lectionary will be presented without comment. You
are invited to meditate on these Gospel readings by observing the spiritual
practice of Lectio Divina. This
Christian discipline involves reading the Gospel slowly and carefully,
attentive to what is said, and also striving with a Spirit-inspired imagination
to be present within the narrative.
God bless you as you
read, reflect, and pray through this season of repentance and preparation.
God's peace,
Steve Tuell
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| Sermon Schedule for February
For those who'd like to keep reading and pondering the gospel passages that are inspiring our sermons this month, here are the links:
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