This week’s Home Brewed Worship provides you all a number of ways to enter into prayer and to explore the Gospel story. If you’re at home with family, a partner, a friend or a spouse please consider working through some of this with them. If you’re alone, consider phoning someone else and inviting them to join you in worship.
Carve out some space sacred space in your home, perhaps you have candle, some colourful material, a cross, a bible, some pictures of the world, artwork or images of Jesus…
You don’t need to use all of this material, nor do you need to do it all in one sitting, perhaps some of these prayers and music can travel with you throughout the week. Use the material as part of daily exercises, music to carry you through the week, reflections to ponder as you walk or stay at home.
For some your focus may be to hear the gospel preached, others the gospel sung, while others may want to find a practice that they can enter into over the course of the week to make space for the Holy Spirit to work on us. My focus this week will be exercising the practice of Lectio Vicinitas (Neighbourhood Reading), allowing the practice of walking, a large part of this week’s scripture readings to teach me.
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Order of Service
Some people have requested a formal order of service as a guide to use this material at home. Access a formal order here. If you’re happy making your own way through these resources please make yourself at home.
As we enter into worship we invite you to contemplate these 3 questions:
- What am I grateful for this week?
- Who will I check in with / make contact with this week?
- Where will I seek, or create beauty this week?
This Week’s Readings:
Acts 2:14a, 36-41 (CEV)
Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19 (MSG)
1 Peter 1:17-23 (CEV)
Luke 24:13-35 (CEV)
Home Brewed Prayer
This Weeks Video Reflection
This week’s reflection on the story from Luke 24:13-35
The Rev Simon Hansford has released a reflection for Anzac Day: Lest We Forget
Singing The Story
We’ve made a playlist of songs that link with this weeks scripture readings here.
Worshipping at home with a young family? At home we’re developing a particular worship style I’ve come to fondly call “Chaos Church.” We first create a sacred space, we sing some songs together, we read the bible together (again, if you need a bible for your children at home let me know), we talk about the story and then we pray together.
Each week we will offer you a couple ways to go deeper with the scripture, many of these invitations are becoming a part of a collection of spiritual practices on our website for people to use in their daily life.
These practices are designed for you to use during the week,
Invitation 01 – Make some bread, break it and share it with someone.
Invitation 02 – Remix the Psalm
Invitation 03 – Lectio Vicinitas (Neighbourhood Reading)
See our invitations to go deeper this week on our website here.