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Following Christ: Started on January 11, 2022, ending March 1Following Christ -- a seven-week journey to grow in your faith. Enjoy a time of prayer, video teaching, and small table conversation while joining others in a spiritual exploration of how to grow in a deeper living relationship with Jesus Christ."Following Christ", the follow-up series to "Discovering Christ", began at St. Mary - Stony Hill on Tuesday, 01/11/2022.
Our first topic of discussion and meditation was, "Daily Personal Prayer". During this session, we discovered several elements to prayer, we examined how we can establish a fruitful prayer life, and we were inspired and motivated to learn that our relationship with God can only be strengthened through daily personal prayer.
What is God saying to You? Our second “Following Christ” session this past Tuesday, “Hearing God in Scripture”, focused on how Scripture reading is vital to building our relationship with God. We discovered 3 truths to God’s word. God’s word is personal; God’s word is powerful: God’s word prunes us. Lord Jesus, please help us to read Your word with the expectation that Your will and plan for us will be revealed. Amen.
Do You Accept God’s Gifts? “The Power of the Sacraments”, session 3 of “Following Christ” this past Tuesday, explained to us how the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist are visible signs of God’s invisible Grace and are free, undeserved gifts from God. Through them, we are restored to intimate friendship with God and brought to communion with him and each other. Lord Jesus, help us to allow Your Grace to strengthen us so we may respond to the call to be Children of God. Amen.
Do You Accept God’s Gifts? This past week’s “Following Christ” session 4, “Forgiving One Another”, reminded us how Jesus is the perfect example of forgiveness of our sins. A debt we could never pay ourselves. We are commanded by God to forgive others as God has forgiven us and that we must develop a lifestyle of forgiving. Lord Jesus, please help us to lay down our judgment at your Cross and to forgive others as you have forgiven us. Amen.
What is Your Driving Force? This past Tuesday, session 5 of “Following Christ”, titled “The Spirit Empowered Life” leads us in discussion about how the early Church began her ministry by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost and that the Holy Spirit continues to fill us with the power to live new life in Christ. Lord Jesus, fill us with your Holy Spirit so that we may live out the Christian Life as your Disciples. Amen.
Who is Your Heart For? Session 6 of “Following Christ”, “The Heart of a Disciple”, revealed to us that discipleship requires our movement and following after Jesus. We are called to imitate Jesus as our model, and to have a heart for love of one another; a heart for the lost; a heart for the least; a heart for generosity. Lord Jesus, guide us on the path to having the heart of a Disciple. Amen.
Tuesday, 03/01/2022, our final session of “Following Christ”, “Going on With the Lord”, informed us how to incorporate the practical disciplines of Grace and the Truths that we’ve learned, into our growing relationship with the Lord and others. And that we are called not only to be disciples but to make disciples as well. Lord Jesus, thank you for all you have done for us through “Following Christ”. Please give us the Grace to continue growing closer to you and to be model disciples for others to imitate. Amen.For more information, you may also contact our staff member Darrin Nelson via email dnelson@stmaryswatchung.org or phone at (908) 756-6524 ext 15. Or if you are ready to get started you may sign up below.
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Topics and Calendar DatesTuesday Evenings- Murray Hall 6:30 to 8 pm
Dates Topics
Jan 11 Session 1 Daily Personal Prayer
Jan 18 Session 2 Hearing God in Scripture
Jan 25 Session 3 The Power of the Sacraments
Feb 1 Session 4 Forgiving One Another
Feb 8 Session 5 The Spirit-Empowered Life
Feb 19 Saturday Day of Retreat
Feb 22 Session 6 The Heart of a Disciple
Mar 1 Session 7 Going on with the Lord
Mar 8 Snow Date