This Lent: Speak A Word
During this Lenten Season, you are invited to join us on a spiritual journey that calls us to deepen our daily discipleship, expand our capacity to love, anchor our faith and widen our connections with God and one another. Speak a Word: A Weekly Prayer-Poem Study for Lent is designed for individual and group use featuring original prayer-poems by Bishop LaTrelle Miller Easterling that examines Scripture and our life with God. This six-week study encourages believers to: Seek Truth, Trust in Provision, Anticipate Healing, Have Hope, Love Abundantly, and Humbly Serve as Jesus does.
You are also encouraged to fast with us by participating in a Journey to Beloved Community: Six Actions for Being and Becoming. This eight-session course equips congregational leaders and other participants with a faithful framework that includes Scripture, Wesleyan theology, strategies and other tools to contextually build beloved community and do no harm. These sessions explore how we can seek relationships, examine our perceptions, engage for understanding, respect differences, assume positive intent, and grow in cultural humility.
This fast is a way for us to move beyond giving up temporal or physical practices to embrace a new way of life that fasts (hungers) for the ways of God from the inside out. It calls us to consider what we are fasting for and not from so that we can increase our capacity to live out the Word and better love God and neighbors.
(For those who would like to preach alongside this study, Feasting on the Word Lenten Companion: A Thematic Resource for Preaching and Worship is an excellent resource that has been used to create the outline for this study.)
Week 2: Trust in Provision
