Luke 10:1-12
There has been a bit of talk in the blogsphere about Neil Cole’s 10:02 prayer meme.
As Jon Reid says:
“For two weeks, I have been practicing the 10:02 prayer meme: to pray Luke 10:2 every day at 10:02 a.m. This is something I got from reading Organic Church. Hamo describes it on his blog, and I know from Chad Canipe’s passing that this practice was started by friends of Kevin Rains’, and has been modified to carry on Chad’s vision.”
In the Churches of Christ future direction process that my denomination has been working through with Alan Roxburgh - the extended version of this passage (Luke 10:1-12) has been reflected on in many meetings. In fact, just in the last week I have been to two events in which this passage has been used for reflection and thought.
Each time I get different things out of this passage of scripture. Last week it was the following thoughts:
- a missionary mindset needs to be reclaimed (sent to every town.. the harvest/the laborers)
- flexibililty/light on our feet (if a town doesn’t welcome you…)
- vulnerability (like lambs)
- strong on community (eating and drinking)
- deep recognition of the cause and the spirituality (the kingdom of God has come near)
- scary responsibility (Sodom reference)
Last night when I was at a forge postcard and the same passage was used by Paul Cameron - the following sentence jumped out out me and I still haven’t got my mind around it:
“Whatever house you enter, first say “Peace to this house!” And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you.”
Anyone have any thoughts?
September 13th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Don’t you think that in comparison our culture probably has too much moving on too soon and too much fear-mongering and defensiveness? How about leaving people God’s peace everywhere? Otherwise they’re at the mercy of political and corporate media voices, no?