Church Stuff, week 2

By the time you read this, you will have completed countless habitual tasks, motions, movements, routines, procedures and protocols. You, like the rest of us, are a person of habit. God knows this, thus- there are fundamental uses for what many of us have gotten used to calling useless; ritual.

Help your group to find the difference between the baby and the bathwater this week, and embrace the disciplines and ritual necessary to help hold our feet on the path while never letting those rituals becomes the focus or the point. The former is broken people letting God direct their worship and transformation tangibly. The latter is all the bad parts of religion.

What were the key points for you?

What was the "one thing" you took away?

What surprised you?

What bothered you? Why?

Have you ever heard or come across a similar teaching or idea? Have you ever been taught something that was contradictory?

What is/was already part of your thinking on this subject?

What did you learn that was new to you?

*About God?

*About yourself?

*About others?

What changes of thought are necessary in light of what you learned?

What changes of action are needed?

How would life be different if you/we applied this teaching fully?

What are the hindrances, and what do we do about those?

What role can this group play to help you take steps this week and beyond?