Week Two

Ready, Steady, Go

The alphabet is picking up steam now as we go on in Grace! Nothing is possible in life without a little grace, it’s grace that gets us up in the morning, gets us through the day living lives jam- packed with other people, and lets us get to sleep at the end of it. Fortunately with God we get a lot more than a ‘little grace’, we get the game-changing grace that supercharges the universe...

Check out our A to Z Resource Pack to see all the letters G to M.

SEEDS TO SOW: IF YOU WERE DRAWING A PICTURE OF ‘THE KINGDOM OF GOD’ WHAT WOULD YOU DRAW? *

Read John 1: 1-18

I - Incarnation. “And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.” (Verse 14.) Incarnation speaks of the compelling pull at the heart of our faith: that when Jesus came to live ‘among us’ he was somehow fully divine and fully human — embodied as one of us. In a supreme gesture of love Jesus got to know us on our terms.

What questions do you have about Jesus’s humanity? What interests, puzzles or strikes you about the conundrum of Jesus being fully human and fully divine at the same time?

Read Luke 17: 20-21

K - Kingdom. So what did Jesus mean when he said “the kingdom of God is among you”? In what sense can God’s kingdom be among or in the midst of people? And how can we recognise the kingdom of God amongst us now?

Read Psalm 150

M - Music. Is music just ‘set dressing’, a soundtrack for emoting in worship — or is music something more elemental — than somehow connects us to something much bigger?

What does music mean to you in worship?

* SEEDS TO SOW: These are open-ended and optional prompts and are designed for people wanting to develop their own resources in response to the themes. Perhaps if you are using this material as a group you could use these prompts to inspire a time of prayer, or drawing, or creative writing? They are a short and sweet, simply a starting off place for you and your imagination. Tailor and develop as suits your group.