09-16-2018
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
R.E. Building – Rooms 6, 7 & 8

A Covenant is a Promise

Today we will Introduce the concept of religious community as people joined together by covenant. We will explore what covenant means by drawing from the Jewish and Christian sources of our living tradition as the root of our concept of covenant. In our context, the Blake covenant is used in many Unitarian Universalist congregations to exemplify what it means to be a covenanted Unitarian Universalist community. We will invite participants to reflect on what covenant means within this group.

Take Home

Discuss what covenant means. How is a covenant the same as or different than a promise? Who makes covenants? Do you have any family covenants? Has your family done a baby or child dedication ceremony which involved a covenant on the part of the parents or the congregational community?

Create a covenant statement for your family. What are your highest goals as a family? What commitments do you make to one another? How are the commitments which parents make to a family different from those the children make? How are they the same?

Check it out: Session 1