Stainland and Holywell Green URC is a small faith community just over the border into Calderdale, and part of the Waverley Group. Today I took the Vision4life RB road show to their midweek fellowship group. About 12 people were there, mostly retired. We worked on Bible Scrapbooking (see Vision4life website for these instructions) using RB in five small groups.
Although not at first very confident, they soon got into this and produced five interesting versions of gospel stories. There were three different takes on the Holy Week narrative, one that emphasised Jesus carrying the cross, one that looked beyond Good Friday to Easter Day and one which saw the events of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday as the culmination of Jesus life. The two other groups remembered two other well remembered gospel episodes: Jesus calming the storm and the parable of the prodigal son. Hopefully we may have some photographs of these by the weekend so watch this space.
Everyone enjoyed it and felt able to contribute. One person was surprised how much everyone had joined in. Another said how much they liked working in the small group. Some made links between the Rb and episodes from life, including current events in the news and suggestions for prayer. All in all, another good example of how RB can reach the parts other ways of using the bible don't seem to reach.
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3 comments:
I think that in many ways the most radical thing about RB is that it encourages people to remember their own stories and retell them in the light of the Bible stories tehy are also remembering.
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Yes, I agree. What was interesting about this one was how the lay leader of the group told me he didn't think they'd like it before we started and then when we got going and they clearly loved it and were really enjoying themsevles he admitted that he had been wrong in his assumptions.
Hope Rome is fab - wet here again now.
This is a bit philosophical and not really about RB at all But it does look interesting ...
http://tinyurl.com/m84qdp
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