SOAKING IN THE WORD

It’s a beautiful group! There are 12 of us, between the age of 9 and 41, 6 girls and 6 guys. Our stories are as varied as our colors, and our involvement with the local church ranges from “family members” (participating in 80% of the activities), to “outside strangers” (loosely connected).

We will gather every Sunday evening from Sept 12th until October 31st at Alessandra and Zacca’s house, over bread and butter, fresh coffee, orange or passion fruit juice, and homemade carrot cake. It’s a small house, and 12 of us will huddle around a table for 4 to share a physical meal, and a spiritual banquet.

Each week, every time we are together, we will read Luke 10:1-12. It’s an image-saturated passage, with strong commands to go, to proclaim, to offer peace. We want to explore and reconsider as a community what it means to respond to Jesus in and with our culture. We want to carry the messages of this Scripture back into our daily dynamic lives, and not leave them as static words on thin pages.

This is dwelling in the word: inhabiting, soaking in the relevance and movement of words spoken centuries ago, but that still carry us into new understanding and action within and for the sake of our world. At the end of our time dwelling as a group (by then a family, I am sure), I hope we can help each person better understand their own story as a fusion with the greater epic being written by God.