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Lenten Midweek Bible Study “Ask: A Lenten Series” Tuesdays in Lent at 12pm
We will gather at 12pm every Tuesday in Lent: 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4.
This lent we’ll be engaging in Bible Study and Worship alongside resources from Barn Geese Worship (the same authors of our Lenten series from 2022). Here are their introductory words.
“At some point in every Christian’s life, they discover a question.
You know the kind.
Not like, “How are you?” Or, “What kind of toothpaste should I buy?”
But, like, What really happens when we die?
Or, Why does this terrible stuff happen to people who do their best to follow God?
Or, How could God forgive me after what I’ve done?
Or, How do I know what God wants me to do next?
You know. That kind of question.
People often feel isolated when they discover that type of question, as if we are the only one asking it. For whatever reason, questions like this often feel like obstacles to our faith. Or questions feel forbidden, out-of-bounds. Biblically, we read characters like Job and Nicodemus asking questions that sound like ours, only to read what sounds like a very touchy response from God.
But what if faith requires us to ask questions?
What if questions are an essential part of our personal faith?
What if we need questions to survive and grow as a community of faith?
You want to go there, don’t you? You want to believe dialogue with God, relationship with God, requires questions.
Well, guess what? You’re in good company.
When we carefully read scripture, we discover questions everywhere. Hundreds of questions. Questions are created in the Garden of Eden. And in the Gospel of John, the first thing Jesus says to someone after his resurrection is a question.
Once you start noticing questions, you see them everywhere.
Everyone has one, even if they keep it in their back pocket or tightly trapped behind their teeth. Bible people have plenty of questions, too.
So what can we do with that?
Here’s our answer: this series called Ask. In this Lenten season, you’ll find something for every person who’s ever had a question about their faith.”
I look forward to journeying together with openness and vulnerability about the questions of our faith!
This resource also provides a daily devotional which will be available digitally and in print. Click here for the Digital copy of the daily devotional.
