Draw a picture of Community

This last Sunday, we asked everyone to draw a picture of what 'Community' meant to them & leave their work on the table to be seen by the others...

Behold The Man

on the 17th, we used a flash presentation called 'Ecce Homo' which means behold the man. I was turned on to it at Jonny Baker's blog (see link on left side of this blog) and you can reach the links directly at Ecce Homo. It had a modern art sort of presentation of Christ with a great track of music under it. We just kept it looping all morning at the station...

Conversation

The topic this week was 'Conversation' - from The Story We Find Ourselves In. This dealt with how God speaks to us, and in order to get conversations going, our station contained the following instructions:

Start a conversation with someone
using one of the following starters:
How does God speak to you today?
What has God been saying to you lately?
Tell me about a time God spoke to you.
Where are you in your spiritual journey?

worship ideas website

I found a great website with worship ideas. It is Emerging Minister dot Com. Really good stuff!

Blurry?

We had a sign written with a marker that had the word 'blurs' kind of scribled-in so it looked fuzzy or blurry. The sign said:

What blurs your spiritual vision? Write it down... Pray about it. Ask God to help you see clearly. Then throw the paper away.

We had a stack of papers, pens, and a trash can.

Report Card

We were on the section of 'the story we find ourselves in' that discusses chaos/crisis. We decided to have a self-graded report card with the following:

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Effort Grade: E-Excellent, S-Satisfactory, I-Improving, N-Needs Improvement
Achievement Grad: A-Outstanding, B-Above Average, C-Average, D-Below Average, F-Unsatisfactory

For each of the catagories, give yourself an Achievement grade and an Effort Grade:

Love
Joy
Peace
Patience
Kindness
Goodness
Faithfulness
Gentleness
Self-control

Matthew 5:48 Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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During the sermon it was mentioned that we all should recognize how we fall short in these areas, but that we are a work in progress - we should not beat ourselves up or be driven to dispair, but rather Love God & Love Others & allow the Holy Spirit to continue to transform us in these areas as we walk with Him - it is a lifetime of growth... (or something like that).