In this series of Church Without Walls we’re suggesting to you that church looks like connecting with others to help with your spiritual growth. Sometimes we preach God’s message of love with words and other times our actions of love speak loudest.
Gather with others and centre your attention on God in your midst.
CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS ACTIVITY CHALLENGE
Connect Activity #1
Meet a friend for coffee and chat about your spiritual growth.
Our spiritual growth often comes from a challenge of faith? This challenge is your issue of this moment that God is using to help you grow and mature spiritually. These challenges come as part of life and we all experience them. When we reflect on what is happening we can learn and grow and, often, sharing with a friend helps us to gain perspective.
WHAT COULD THIS LOOK LIKE?
There are several in our church family who enjoy going for walks and using this time to speak of their personal faith journey. Others prefer a coffee date or an ice cream. The key thing is to connect with someone else and centre your attention on God in your midst.
Check out the Resources section below for some helpful questions and links to other pages that can give you a helping hand to get started. What we find (as those who do this regularly) is once you get going the momentum takes care of the conversation!
WHY WOULD YOU INVITE OTHERS?
Our goal as a church family is to be well-connected with each other and our community. to achieve this goal we are encouraging you to step into an intentional conversation about your spiritual growth.
Being open like this does require you to be vulnerable, but as Brene Brown says, “Vulnerability builds connection.” She goes on to say, ““One of the reasons there is such an intimacy deficit today is because we don’t know how to be vulnerable. Vulnerability is glue that holds intimate relationships together.”
Inviting others allows us to experience true connection.
RESOURCES:
You may be good at asking yourself questions like this, but many people like to have a prompt to get them started. This article online includes three questions to help with spiritual growth. To help, this is the first question: What’s one spiritual discipline you’d like to grow in this year?
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/melissa-kruger/three-questions-spiritual-growth/
CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS
Make this scripture part of your prayer this week.
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. (2 Peter 1: 3-4)