As today is Shrove Tuesday and tomorrow (Ash Wednesday) marks the beginning of Lent, I thought it might be good for us all to do a Lenten study together. Each week I will post up the study for the following week (there are 6 in all) and we can have a chance to discuss the previous weeks readings – what do you think?
The study is based upon a poem by Dietrich Bonhoeffer entitled Stations on the Way to Freedom written in prison in 1944 by the German Lutheran pastor and theologian executed by the Nazis for his role in the resistance to Hitler. Twelve years earlier in 1932 he had said: ‘To be free is to be in love, is to be in the truth of God. The one who loves because made free by the truth of God, is the most revolutionary person on earth’; and his last recorded words when being taken away for his final trial and execution were: ‘This is the end – for me the beginning of life’.
The course comprises six weekly sessions, corresponding to the six Sundays of Lent concluding with Palm Sunday.
In weeks 2, 3, 5 and 6 the main themes are suggested in turn by the titles of the four verses of Bonhoeffer’s poem ‘Stages on the Way to Freedom’: Discipline, Action, Suffering, Death.
What do you think? Good idea? here is an introduction tote study for you to look at.
If we think it worth while I will post up the first study tomorrow
having had a look through the studies – I reckon they’re great
Great idea, Greg.
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I’ll be honest, I don’t pay attention to the church calendar. (That’s not boasting either – I think it’s a good idea – just not used to it)
But if things like “The one who loves because made free by the truth of God, is the most revolutionary person on earth’
come out of it, I’m all for it. I’ll be thinking about that tonight.
I’m in favor of inspirational articles -esp with people like Bonheoffer.
Looking forward to it Greg.