Saturday, March 12, 2022
Prayer
for Week 2
Lord God, you declare that your kingdom is
among us. Open our eyes to see it, our ears to hear it, our hearts to hold it,
our hands to serve it. This we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
John 20:19-23
When it was evening on that day, the first
day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were
locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace
be with you.”
After he said this, he showed them his hands
and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to
them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
When he had said this, he breathed on them
and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any,
they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
What
do you think Jesus means by “As the Father has sent me, so I send you”?
The
disciples met behind locked doors out of fear.
What
are some barriers that keep our congregation from being “sent people”?
How
might our congregation look or act differently if we focused on being “sent
people”?
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