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Please meditate upon come prepared to discuss the scriptures listed belowThe meeting will be set to start at 9:00 AM and should be finished by 3:30 PM. Please feel free to bring any sort of snacks or drinks you think others would enjoy. Coffee will be furnished starting around 8:20 AM. Plan on eating at one of the local restaurants or bring your own. If you have them, bring your purple manuals, crosses, a pen, and of course your Bible. The scripture to meditate upon for this team meeting is:
Galatians 5:13-14 (JNT)
13 For, brothers, you were called to be free. Only do not let that freedom become an excuse for allowing your old nature to have its way. Instead, serve one another in love. 14 For the whole of the Torah is summed up in this one sentence: “Love your neighbor as yourself;” 407 [1] [1] Stern, D. H. (1989). Jewish New Testament : A translation of the New Testament that expresses its Jewishness (1st ed.). Jerusalem, Israel; Clarksville, Md., USA: Jewish New Testament Publications. The morning general theme will be NATURE OF GOD'S LOVE The agenda for the meeting will be: TEAM MEETING NO. 3 AGENDA
TOPIC: THE NATURE OF GOD'S LOVE DATE:
January 22, 2005
9:30 Leader's Prayer, Page 327 (Lay ):_____________________________
9:45 hr. Team is invited to share the impact of the preparation scripture they've been reflecting upon each day. 10:15 hr. Begin visitor's list for closing. Visitors must be adults over the age of 18 and must be submitted to the State of Texas for background checks 10:20 hr. Rector gives a talk on AGAPE. (Page 137) 11:00 hr. The rector asks team to divide into pairs (again with different partners; male with male, female with female) and to share with each other some significant way in which they have been the recipient of agape from another person and how that agape has positively shaped their lives.
The rector then asks each member of the pair to pray for the other for the grace and strength to carry the grace of that agape into the prison, even to the least loveable. 11:20 hr. Compline. 11:30 hr. Song. Recommended story: In the early days of Kairos, near the close of a 2-Day Residents' Retreat, a retreatant asked to speak to the community. He was a strong, negative leader. After looking every other resident in the eye, he said, 'You know, guys, there were 180 men on the call-out sheet for this retreat, but there are only 140 of us here. Do you know why the other 40 aren't here? Because we didn't love them enough for them to want to be here." He then proceeded to name men who were not there because he hadn't loved them enough, and after each example he listed, he said, "... and I dropped him [or "them"] at the very moment they needed my love the most." It was a powerful confession of a lack of spiritual courage. In the afternoon the scripture will be:
Mark 12:41-43 (JNT)
41 Then Yeshua sat down opposite the Temple treasury and watched the crowd as they put money into the offering-boxes. Many rich people put in large sums, 42 but a poor widow came and put in two small coins. 43 He called his talmidim to him and said to them, “Yes! I tell you, this poor widow has put more in the offering-box than all the others making donations.[1]
[1] Stern, D. H. (1989). Jewish New Testament : A translation of the New Testament that expresses its Jewishness (1st ed.). Jerusalem, Israel; Clarksville, Md., USA: Jewish New Testament Publications. The afternoon theme will be NATURE OF OUR SINFUL LOVE TEAM MEETING NO. 4 AGENDA
TOPIC: THE NATURE OF OUR SINFUL LOVE DATE:
January 22, 2005 1:10. St. Francis' Prayer, Page 328 (Clergy):________________________________
1:15 . Team is invited to share the impact of the preparation scripture they've been reflecting upon each day.
1:45 Rector gives a talk on EROS. (page 140) 2:20 Rector asks teams to divide into pairs (again with someone new) and share the greatest area of weakness or poverty in their present spiritual life and how eros has influenced that weakness.
Ask the pairs to pray for one another, that they be given the grace to overcome destructive uses of eros.
3:00 hr. Logistics: a. Rector talks to team about food Agape, about allowing others to join in ministry of Kairos through contributions to the ministry: food, prayer, "green" Agape [cash donations].
b. Kitchen Agape leader distributes food Agape lists to food chairperson of each of the five or six geographical areas into which the team has been divided, noting that all food Agape items [except perishables] are to be delivered at team's overnight retreat at end of team formation.
3:20 Song "Surely the Presence of The Lord is in this Place." Closing prayer.
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