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Welcome to Lent – forty days of preparation for Holy Week and Easter Living. In this season, we always talk and apply ourselves to our own journeys of faith. Making progress in our faith journeys really matters in the world, it matters to God and it makes a difference in our lives and with our neighbors. Why do I say this? Well, look at the 10 Commandments. Only three of them are about our relationship with God. A Full Seven of them are about our relationship with our neighbors.
Somewhere in our “church lives” we have spent a good deal of time thinking about our relationship with God and somehow minimized the opportunity to work at shaping our relationships with our neighbors. It is my strong belief that what we do with our neighbors has a huge impact on our own faith development and our sense of God active in our own lives. It is not just for our neighbor that God invites us to work at our relationships with our neighbors. It is also enlightened self-interest. It matters in our own faith development, how we engage and relate to others.
So, this Lenten season in Sunday morning Adult Class and in Vespers on Wednesday Evenings we will be thinking about 10 verbs that can begin to better shape our relationships with others, open our faith lives and create in us a new sense of God’s activity in our lives and in our hearts.
Join us this Lenten Season as we explore connecting with our neighbors in news ways with the anticipation that God will show up in with sustenance for which we have always been hungry: God’s presence and steadfast love.
Sunday Adult Class (also our Theme in Vespers) this week:
March 5 Recognize and Connect – “Called to New Depths of Knowing and Loving Our Neighbors”
March 12 Acknowledge and Care – “I See You! And the Circle of Hospitality”
March 19 All Congregation Event – Invitation and Hospitality
March 26 Affirm and Call Forward (invite) – “Naming, Appreciating and Inviting to Participate
April 2 Encourage and Empower – “Bringing Support and Encouragement to Bear”
April 9 ” Nurture and Pray For – “Lift Them Up – and Lift Them Before God”
- Recognize one another – people yearn to be seen and heard
- Connect with your neighbors, colleagues, strangers, friends
- Acknowledge that God is working through you and others for His purpose
- Care for one another
- Affirm one another
- Call Forward (invite) people to church, to events, to community,
- Encourage one another
- Empower people to live out their spiritual gifts and their most authentic selves
- Pray (for) one another
- Nurture one another as we grow in our faith
Pastor Mitch