What is the God’s Wisdom for us?
Where are the passions and life . . .
- A heartbeat, coming together
- Reminder and helping each other remember that God loves us
- People who are questing
- Tangents
- Seeing where God is moving and joining God in that
- Passion for wounded people – for we carry wounds
- Caring for folks in transition
- Connecting people to what they need
- Conversation
- Integrity – honesty – truth – authenticity – rawness
- Family
- Trust in conjunction with our dysfunction
- “I get more hugs”
- “I don’t have to put on a face”
- “I am heard”
- “A growing hope for the church”
- “I feel alive”
- “redefinitions”
- “I feel challenged to continue growing, even if scary”
- “Its ok to be where I’m at”
Balancing inward and outward
- Going out with
- Prayer and perspective
- Grounding which enables me to have strength outside of here
- Love my neighbors
- Quest can be a model to enlarge people’s understanding of Christianity
- The dancing of objectivity with subjectivity
- Spacious Conversations
Structure – creating what will be
- Balance of inward and outward
- Once a month plus weekly small groups of a sort
- Groups going out together
- Meeting Regularly
- Practicing hospitality, feeding homeless, serving, etc.
- Organizing around passions – People for passions with different things, creating space for passion-expression
- A web based source to support connecting
- If you want to see quest do something – to initiate
- Sacramental (at least monthly):
- Prayer
- Worship
- Word
- Teaching
- Storying of the month (three plus hours)
- Meal – mini-meals
- Creating circles for what will be
Shared leadership:
- Communication, Emailing, etc.
- Collaborate in creating a web space
- Shared teaching and facilitating
- Open hosting forums
Extra Questions
- How is God calling Quest to the “more.”
- How do we live into the more?
- Are we fed by feeding?
- How do we become Eucharist to our world?
- We are together with each other in our weaknesses.
- Self-sacrifice* and lots of trust, and our _________ will be ______.
- Connection** brings in hope and healing.
- Risking pursuing more in others.
- We’re in a place of affliction. Eliminates the band-aid of meeting every week and exposes the need.
- Listening to the Scripture.
*Surrendering our agendas
**Conversation, bring my questions (even if not clear), I wasn’t alone.
Peace, dwight
what might be God’s wisdom for us?
