For the next five weeks, beginning Wednesday night, January 18 we’ll be doing a little less at the HUB. Normally our nights there are so busy! We come in from long days of school, from practice, from tests, from study groups, etc… We come upstairs hang out for a few moments only to be hurried into our time of worship. We sing, we pray, we listen to some one talk for a while, then we usually all talk about that. And we try to do all that in a little less than an hour & 1/2.
I love what we do at the HUB. I think it’s all very good. But it’s a lot each week. And I’ve come to value two things in particular about our time together on Wednesday nights:
1. We get to hang out together, talk, caught up a little, play some ping pong, tell funny stories about our weeks so far, etc. And I don’t want to rush us past that part.
2. I think what’s best about our times together in the HUB room are the times when we are discussing our faith together or learning to practice a particular part of our discipleship together.
So in order to let those two things really shape our time together on Wednesdays we are going to spend a bit more time hanging out. I’m going to spend a bit more time hanging out. And when we do begin, it won’t necessarily follow our pattern of sing, pray, talk, talk together.
In fact for the next 5 weeks we’ll be looking at some different ways of praying. In order to give this our full attention there will be little to no singing & me & Wes will not be giving full blown talks. We’ll help you have enough information to begin practicing these ways of praying & then we’ll practice them & talk all together about how that’s going & what that way of praying is like to you.
I’m looking forward to it! I think this will be a great way to start off the new year & get us ready for Winter Retreat.
