Tune Your Rule of Life for Summer
As wonderful—or challenging—as summer can be, for many people summer is at least one thing: different. How will you tune your rule of life to be intentional about prayer, community, and mission this summer?
Mission starts with relationships, and great relationships are built through conversation. Jesus was the master question asker, and we do well to follow his example. Questions show curiosity and guide conversations into new and interesting territory.
Seek areas of conversation that make people light up and talk freely.
A follow-up question takes things further, showing genuine interest.
A well-timed question can open the door to deep, authentic sharing.
Once trust is established, ask spiritual questions to build a shared experience of faith. Asking these questions build community and shows support.
Whether we know it or not, we all have family members or friends who are fighting hidden battles of doubt, alienation, isolation, guilt, compulsions, grief, or hopelessness. But often we don’t know how to offer the good news of Jesus to them in these struggles.
Mission-Ready Friendship shows you how to go deeper to become the friend Jesus created you to be. It spells out simple, incremental practices any Catholic can use to develop deeper, more purposeful friendships.
Read our latest thoughts on mission in the life of a missionary disciple.
As wonderful—or challenging—as summer can be, for many people summer is at least one thing: different. How will you tune your rule of life to be intentional about prayer, community, and mission this summer?
The first part of this article mentioned the redirect technique as a helpful tool for addressing thought-provoking questions that may come up during small group discussions.
As a facilitator of a small group, you play a really important role. You are the instigator of a lively, edifying, spirit-filled conversation around the most important words ever written down—God’s word in Sacred Scripture.
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