10-09-2016
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
R.E. Building – Rooms 6, 7 & 8


Love is the Spirit of this Church

 

This session explores the essence of a beloved community as sharing the good times as well as the bad with each other; this is what creates a true spirit of love in a religious community. When people are tied together by the spirit of love, we share the ordinary moments of life as well as the momentous occasions. When love is the basis of a shared experience, we are motivated to overcome conflict and reach out to help one another. Therefore, when love is the spirit of the congregation, our religious community helps us, each and all, to grow and to support one another in both good times and bad. Today we will explore the idea that love is most powerful when it is given away or shared, demonstrate how our beloved religious communities are places of sharing, caring, and love, and lead participants to experience their role in creating, in their congregation, the beloved community that shares experiences together and offers caring to one another.

 

Take Home:

Discuss and explore the ways you volunteer your time and efforts to help your religious community to “give back” some of the good feelings you get from participating in your congregation. Share some of the times you have felt the spirit of love in your religious community and how the people at your congregation make this happen.

 

Create a family heart together with different parts of the large heart symbolizing the good and bad times you’ve had together as a family. Without using words, colors and designs can depict experiences and reveal feelings as you represent the times of your lives together.

 

Check it out: Session 3