Week One

Part 1: You can't escape Holiness

All of our questions are intended as a starting point, feel free to adapt to your context and circumstances.

Read Psalm 111: 1-10

What does this passage mean — surely we are not to be afraid of God?

What does it mean to fear God and how can that be the beginning of wisdom?

Read Mark 1: 21-28

The premise of this theme is that the current safety measures of ‘social distancing’ can be read as a parable of how we have already been increasingly ‘socially distant’ from one another for years — becoming in many ways disconnected from one another. As we see from this encounter in the synagogue Jesus is fully physically, intellectually and spiritually present.

In our day to day lives have we socially distanced ourselves from healing, teaching and spiritually?

Have we compartmentalised these things into a box that we only open once a week or even less?

How can we be like Jesus and be more present in body, mind and spirit?

Read Malachi 3: 1-4

Sometimes it is hard not to feel socially distant from God. But there is always a way back.

What has to be refined in our lives to bring us close to God again?

What parts of our body need to become alive again to Jesus to create community, to experience freedom, to live out love?