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ReSet - Week Three

raemx February 05, 2025 0 0

Re: Set to Reconfigure

Gathering-in God, having rediscovered what we need and reimagined how to get there guide us as we seek to flourish together.

As we pray and hope for restoration, rebuilding and renewal throughout society what needs to be reconfigured?

SEEDS TO SOW: How could society be reconfigured to be fairer?

Read Acts 1: 1-11

Re: Calibrate

Just like the apostles looking up into the sky, we are sometimes guilty of looking at where Jesus was rather than where he is now. What he was doing and not what he is doing now.

What ways do we need to recalibrate and reorganise our church communities? To reassess where Jesus is calling us to join him in the work he is already doing? Are we sometimes guilty ourselves of looking at where Jesus has been rather than where he is now?

Read Ephesians 1: 15-23

Re: Member

"I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love towards all the saints, and for this reason I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers." (Verses 15-16, NRSVA.)

Remembering one another in prayer, sharing our gratitude for others is a powerful thing.

Gratitude transforms communities, relationships, and lives as we remember that we are all members together in a bigger picture.

As we seek to rebuild in the wake of years of pandemic, recession, and conflict, how can we build simple gratitude for one another into our institutions and across society without compromises the need for fairness and justice?

What does a healthcare system based on gratitude look like?

What does a justice system based on gratitude look like?

What does an economics of gratitude look like?

Read Luke 3:15-22

Re: Claiming

The loving Father God acknowledges his Son, laying claim to him. God also lovingly claims us, acknowledging us as his own.

In Baptism we lay claim to God and God lays claim to us!

Have you been baptised? If so, what does your baptism mean to you? If not do you have any questions about baptism and what it represents? 

As a group discuss your shared experiences and association with baptism.