Read
the lessons at the Vanderbilt Library website:
http://divinity.lib.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary/BLent/bLent4.htm
Photograph
above shows civil rights demonstrators arrested in Nashville,
Tennessee. From the Kelly Miller Smith Papers, Vanderbilt University
Special Collections
(Adult Student Pew-work)
Numbers
21:4-9
Psalm
107:1-3, 17-22
Ephesians
2:1-10
John
3:14-21
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At what times in your life have you or do you feel as if you are in a spiritual “wilderness”? |
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What
experiences makes you feel “burned” or “bitten”? |
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Has your reaction to those experiences been avoidance or denial, or both? Why? why not? |
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To what extent does facing
your problems make them more manageable? |
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What challenges can you think of that the Church is reacting to with avoidance or denial, or both? |
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