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    Lentwise
    Lentwise
    Lentwise
    Ebook113 pages51 minutes

    Lentwise

    By Paula Gooder

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    As we journey through life, we face challenges - both big and small. What spiritual essentials will help us survive life's storms? Lentwise uses fresh insights from John’s Gospel to help us deal with the rigors of real life
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChurch House Publishing
    Release dateApr 24, 2014
    ISBN9780715143872
    Lentwise
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    Paula Gooder

    Paula Gooder is a writer and lecturer in New Testament studies. She is the author of several books, including Searching for Meaning: An Introduction to Interpreting the New Testament.

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      Lentwise - Paula Gooder

      How to use this course

      Introduction

      What counts as a travel essential? We all have our own pet ‘essentials’ list for holidays. After a toothbrush and soap what would you put on yours? A book? MP3 player, CD or radio? Camera or video camera? Hair straighteners or a hairdryer? Cuddly toy? Travel essentials range from the mundane (a razor or shampoo) through the luxurious (a cashmere blanket for an aeroplane flight) to the ridiculous. When I surfed the Internet looking for travel essentials I found listed such things as a ‘hat retainer’ to prevent the wind blowing your hat away; inflatable coat hangers and a waterproof bag for MP3 players for use while swimming. How any of these quite fit in the category of ‘essential’ is hard to imagine.

      If you went on a different kind of journey, however, you would take an altogether different kind of travel essential. Expeditions that involve trekking into the unknown require more ‘essential’ essentials, like a map or compass, food, a torch, some kind of shelter and water. Real life with its unpredictability and dependence on factors beyond our control has much more in common with an expedition than with a trip to a comfortable cottage or hotel room. Sometimes the sun is shining in our world, the weather is balmy and we have no real worries about our life journey; at other times storm clouds gather, the temperature drops and our destination is foggy. At these times, the spiritual equivalent of essentials for an expedition become vital for our survival. This course will explore five ‘spiritual essentials’ for real life that will help us to raise various questions that affect all our lives:

      •  A Compass: Where are we going in life? How do we know where we should be going on life’s journey? What life is all about?

      •  Bread: What nourishes me and keeps me going? What really feeds me?

      •  Light/a torch or lamp: Where do I get insights about my everyday life? What shines a light in my life and gives me clarity?

      •  Shelter: Where do I find true security? What makes me feel safe?

      •  Water: Where do I get refreshment? How do I avoid getting burned out?

      There is a story, oft-told by preachers but worth repeating, that goes a bit like this. A minister was speaking at a school and she asked the children: what climbs trees, has a long bushy tail and loves acorns? There was the usual forest of hands as the children were all desperate to give an answer. So the minister chose a pensive-looking boy on the front row, who said ‘Well I know the answer must be Jesus because you’re a minister but it does sound more like a squirrel to me.’ Hardly surprisingly, the answer to the questions outlined in the spiritual essentials list above is Jesus but that is only half the answer to the question. Jesus is indeed the answer but what precisely does that mean? How can we learn from Jesus the spiritual essentials for our lives that will mean we can survive life’s storms? Could it be that he is the starting point for our questions?

      While many passages in the Bible could help us to begin to answer these questions, John’s Gospel is perhaps the best place to start. Although the Gospel of John is, at times, the most complex and ‘spiritual’ of all the Gospels, it also uses down to earth images to describe who Jesus is and what he does. In John, Jesus describes himself using everyday images like bread and light and shows himself to be a perfect example of the spiritual essentials we seek. This course then encourages us all to stock up our store of spiritual essentials so that, in the company of Jesus, our companion on the way, we might face life’s storms with courage and hope.

      Using this course

      Your group

      Some of the groups undertaking this course will be well established and know each other well; others may be relatively new or will have come together solely in order to undertake this course. You will probably find that you need to adapt the material in this course to fit the needs of your group. If people know each other well they may feel able to share more personal material than those who do not know each other as well. The material in this course is a resource but does not have to be followed in its entirety. Please feel free to edit the material as best fits your group and its needs. In particular use only the questions/discussion material you need to use and ignore any material that does not fit the context of your group. The course includes far too many discussion questions for any one group. This is to give a variety of questions so that your group can take the material in the direction it finds most helpful.

      In addition, the timings given are only guidelines: you can spend as much time as you choose on each section.

      Getting ready

      At the start of each session is a section that tells you how to get ready.

      There is also a reflective piece I have written to get you into some of the issues that arise out of the Bible passage you will be exploring. It would be good for group leaders to have read it before the session and group members are also recommended to read it in advance as it will enable them to tackle the passage and the questions at a deeper level. However, for people who do not have time, the session will work whether or not you have read the reflection.

      Following this is a list of

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