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Cool ideas for echo!
Cool ideas for echo!
Here's what we're doing in the Wednesday night class I teach.
We begin with about ten minutes of introductory conversation/teaching. This usually has something to do with contemplative prayer or 'lectio divina.' It's part history lesson and part instruction.
Then we spend fifteen minutes in contemplative prayer/silence. I turn down the lights and we sit in silence as a group.
Then I read a chapter from the Gospel of Luke. I read it very slowly, paying attention to every phrase. I encourage the class to listen to the text being read, not follow along with me in their Bibles. Last Wednesday it took me nearly fifteen minutes to read Luke 7.
Then we spend the final minutes of class discussing what we heard in the text. This may happen in small groups or we may do it together as a class. The question I ask is 'What did you hear in tonight's text?' As the conversation develops I begin to sharpen the focus of the question to 'Did you hear a Word in this text directed to you personally?'
Then we finish with a prayer.
