To dine on your own can have its pleasures, but to dine together is sharing in relationship.
We dinned on delicious lasagne last week at Sanctus1, as we opened a new series of services on the topic of connectedness.
The conversation was as filling as the food, with an opportunity to catch up with people we've not seen for a while (well, at least a week). Some new folk were with us, so as well as cementing old, we developed the new.
This intro session just allowed us to focus on the nature and importance of relationship and how complicated they are! We looked at who we are in relationship with and what are the drivers in that relationship. If relationships are so integral to being human, then it is no wonder we look at the nature of God through the concepts of relationship. When we hear words such as 'love the Lord you God...and your neighbour', these are concepts of relationship. The idea of a jealous God is one that supposes a relationship - but a big challenge for some was the idea that God's name is jealous!
We used a bullseye target as a way of expressing who we are close to in relationship and also relating different aspects of the Trinity to ourselves.
This week, we look some dynamics within relationship using transactional analysis and what insights do we get of God from this understanding.
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