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ReSet - Week Two

raemx February 05, 2025 0 0

 Re: Set to Reimagine

Reset us Saviour God so that we can reimagine what is possible, that we might doodle, and sketch and take tentative steps in response to your transforming love.

As we pray and hope for restoration, rebuilding and renewal throughout society what are we wanting to reimagine? 

SEEDS TO SOW: Pick a street near where you live. Reimagine it in your mind’s eye, what would you change about it? To improve the lives of all who use it. Then take that your reimagining to God in prayer and reflect on what you could do to make your re-imagination a reality

Read Exodus 35: 4-35

Re: Designing

There’s a lot of detail here giving us a window into a vibrant community that is pooling together resources and skills in a great shared endeavour: constructing the Tabernacle (a kind of portable sanctuary).

Enormous shared tasks like these can unite a community, weaving people together with a common purpose. God’s people can achieve great things when they work together.

What helps a team work together? To bring out the best in everyone contributing.

Read Hosea 11: 1-11

Re: Engaging

In the midst of all too human conflict and calamity, rejection and recklessness comes the voice of God — tender, frustrated, in pain — and sounding astonishingly human.

Getting our heads around what it is like to ‘be’ God is phenomenally difficult. How can we possibly imagine what it is like to be the ageless creator of everything!? But knowing that we ourselves are made in the image of God might give us some insights.

As we see in this reading: a heartbroken parent raising a child making their way through the miraculous and the mundane, the incredible and the everyday, teaching their child to walk and then bracing themselves for rejection, offers an echo of the divine love at heart of the universe.

As we re-engage with who God is what words stand out for you in this reading? How might these words form part of a prayer that you could offer to God?

Read Ephesians 1: 3-14

Re: Imagining.

Let’s imagine the seal of the Holy Spirit was a literal stamp on our souls. What would the design be? 

Would everyone’s be the same or would each one be unique? Discuss as a group what images and symbols speak to you powerfully of God’s love for us.

You could even have a go drawing or painting these seals!