April Prayers | For our Scoper Lecture
“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervour, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. ”
DEAR FRIENDS,
This month we’ll be welcoming David Brooks with Melody Barnes for our April 21, 2024, Scoper Lecture, “Know Better: Deepening the Bonds of Communal Life.” The lecture will be followed by flash pop up tables in the ampitheater for 600 people to eat pie and practice getting to know one another better. Then, on Monday in the Dome Room, we’ll hear from a panel of wise leaders who are using stories to help bring social healing.
Throughout all of these events, we pray for God’s spirit to be alive and active in fresh ways. We pray for each one of us to know in our bones our belovedness as we enter into these spaces with others, helping us to cross old divides and build new and lasting connections.
Please join us as we pray!
“When we love and allow ourselves to be loved, we begin more and more to inhabit the kingdom of the eternal. Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plenitude, and distance becomes intimacy.”