Thursday, January 25, 2007

Prayer Summit

This weekend I am going away with my church worship team for a prayer summit. This will be our sixth. Each one has been a unique experience, and God is so faithful to always meet us there.

I am going this year in a pretty good place, but with some things on which I have been challenged by God in the last year or so. A friend commented on one of my earlier posts and mentioned that she is discussing some of the same things I have been thinking about. Her group's discussion questions are great:

1)What if a fragile world is more attracted to God's vision of interdependence and sacrificial sharing than to the mirage of independence and materialism?

2)What does it mean to live incarnationally?

These are probing questions. Between this and the recent "Calling all Peacemakers" series by Rob Bell from Mars Hill, there is much to consider. What if America just up and gave clean water and sanitation to the entire underdeveloped world? We could do it for somewhere between 16 and 23 billion dollars. For a country as rich as ours, that isn't so much, I think, considering we spent 9 billion on Christmas gifts in one day - Black Friday.

Anyway, for me there are two questions. One is, "Am I living simply enough to give enough away?" And the other is, "How can I live more communally?"

I'll be thinking about it at Summit '07.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Sue,
    I love the questions that you're raising. ;) Seriously, they're easy questions to ask, a lot harder to answer. And, it seems that an attempt to answer such questions only leads to more Qs...
    What keeps us from living simply? What keeps ME from living simply? What is God calling ME to do about that?
    A couple of other resources you might be interested in:
    1) Relational Tithe
    http://relationaltithe.com/
    2) The Irresistable Revolution by, Shane Claiborne
    Love ya,
    -Jen

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