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Topics we have discussed:
Spiritual Journey’s
- “I really value that focus on community over religion. That’s the Jesus I want to know.”
- “People who are patient and complex and open. Raw.”
- “ ‘God, if you are really there, I need you.’ Being born again. Living the life of a Christian, led by the Spirit. ‘Born again’ means I prayed the sinner’s prayer - I was helpless before God and confessed my need: ‘God, if you are really there, I need you.”
- “Journeying in this community because you are more interested in how people interact with Jesus than in Christianity.”
- “Studying the Lord’s Prayer – ‘Thy Kingdom’…”
Spiritual Gifts
- Vary. Need other gifts to be useful. Therefore, we need community.
- How do you know you are wise? Discernment. We usually think of that as individual.
- The Quakers’ gift for the church is a fine understanding that the individual’s voice must be listened to and the sense of the community must confirm the individual.
- As a community we would grow best if we helped each other nurture an grow our gifts.
Holiday Traditions You Can Live With
- universal health care coverage
- sustainable family farms (www.cclpmidwest.org)
- spiritual gifts
- Posada sin Fronteras
- green buildings
- AIDS Marathon Training
- Millennium Development Goals
- "Let that which we are going to do for the holidays be done thoughtfully and meaningfully... We can stretch our imaginations so the celebration of God's birth does honor to the Lord and strives for the peace on earth He came to proclaim."
Alternative Celebrations Catalogue, 4th edition
- "It was great to talk about traditions - and friends and family. This was a lot of fun!"
- "This night was great .... what I want from Epiphany Nights: us thinking/talking/praying/reading/doing our faith .... to be a group of Christians on the way, not necessarily members of Epiphany church, folks I can have an honest conversation with..."
- "... are we a book group/spiritual formation group/worship group/prayergroup/fellowship group? I don't know. I'm not sure those things are separate ...."
Books we are reading:
- Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard
- The Jesus I never Knew by Philip Yancy
- Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
- Traveling Mercies by Anne LaMott
- Genesis Bill Moyers
- The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
- A Generous Orthodoxy by Brian D. McLaren
- Abraham by Bruce Feiler
- Velvet Elvis
Websites we like:
- www.pendlehill.org
- simpleliving.org
- northumbriacommunity.org
- appealforredress.com
- christywebber.com
- www.tonicsolfa.com
- www.greenpressinitiative.org
- www.sorryeverybody.com/gallery/1
Movies we are watching:
- The Great Warming (thegreatwarming.com)
Prayers we are using:
- Complines from Celtic Daly Prayer, Prayers and Readings from the Northunbria Community
