COVID-19: A First Response.
A first response to life in lockdown, for use in Collectives.
Questions.
1. What are you finding hard at the moment? In what ways are you or people around you hurting? What concerns or fears do you have for yourself or your family?
2. What are you thankful for? What are you learning?
3. What do you need? How can we best support each other at the moment?
4. What positive things do you see coming out of this strange season? What opportunities do you see?
In tight circumstances, I cried out to the Lord.
The Lord answered me with wide-open spaces.
Psalm 118:5
We are living through a momentous disruption to life as normal. As a consequence, what would you now like to see in your future that may be different from what you had previously imagined?
A response to Pete and Sammy’s message.
You planned something bad for me, but God produced something good from it, in order to save the lives of many people, just as he’s doing today.
Genesis 50:20
1. Was there anything which particularly resonated with you? (Any moments of ‘Aha!’)
2. Was there anything you felt resistance to? (Any moments of ‘Grr’, or ‘Oh, no!’)
3. Was there anything else you particularly noticed?
Pray for one another.
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever.
To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy – to the only God our Saviour be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and for evermore!
Amen.
Hebrews 13:20-21; Jude 24-25
