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Lenten Conversations
LOGOS means "word" or "statement" in Greek, but Christians also know that Jesus is the eternal and living Word and that Scripture is God's Word to us. Our Lenten preaching series featured a dialogue message and this blog provided a way to expand the conversation with some added comments.

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Key Questions of Lent

3/11/2014

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In many cultures there is an ancient custom of giving a tenth of each year's income to some holy use. For Christians, to observe the 40 days of Lent is to do the same thing with roughly a tenth of each year's days. After being baptized by John in the river Jordan, Jesus went off alone into the wilderness where he spent forty days asking himself the question what it meant to be Jesus. During Lent, Christians are supposed to ask one way or another what it means to be themselves.

If you had to bet everything you have on whether there is a God or whether there isn't, which side would get your money and why?

When you look at your face in the mirror, what do you see in it that you most like and what do you see in it that you most deplore?

If you had only one last message to leave to the handful of people who are most important to you you, what would it be in twenty-five words or less?

Of all the things you have done in your life, which is the one you would like to undo?  Which is the one that makes you happiest to remember?

Is there any person in the world, or any cause, that, if circumstances called for it, you would be willing to die for?

If this were the last day of your life, what would you do with it?

To hear yourself try to answer questions like these is to begin to hear something not only of who you are but of both what you are becoming and what you are failing to become.  It can be a pretty depressing business all in all, but if sackcloth and ashes are at the start of it, something like Easter may be at the end.  (Frederich Buechner, Whistling in the Dark)


4 Comments
Will R.
3/11/2014 05:42:43 am

The most uncomfortable place in the house is in front of the mirror.

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Dave
3/16/2014 06:52:20 pm

But doesn't that mean we are just seeing ourselves through our own eyes? How might we feel about ourselves if we see ourselves through God's eyes?

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Sandra
3/18/2014 05:25:37 am

The spiritual life requires that we look at ourselves honestly. Our prayers need to be truthful, otherwise we are being dishonest before God! Not a happy proposition. God seeks to heal, to restore, to reconcile, but how can that happen if we don't acknowledge our true needs and true brokenness in the first place? I have found this kind of honesty to be difficult and exposing, but wonderfully freeing in the end.

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Jenna Stuart link
6/20/2022 11:07:12 am

Hi thanks for shariing this

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