Many morning's of the course we've done some kind of spiritual reflection, this morning it was with Mark Delaney from Servants. He's spent 18 years with his family living in Indian slums.
He took the Bible passage Luke 7:11-17, about Jesus healing a widow's son. He read through it once to refresh us then assigned all of us a role from the passage (via a pen spin, since no one wanted to be Jesus!), Jesus, Widow, Son, Crowd and Disciples. Then he re-read the passage but this time we were listening and imagining our self in that role.
It was a surprisingly powerful way to really get involved in the Bible. I haven't experienced something quite like it before. A couple of lines of black and white text turned into a full coloured story. Deep sorrow and loss both emotional, political and economical, deep compassion and power, doubt, questioning, surprise, pure and unadulterated delight and hope!
Friday, July 10, 2015
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