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If you had
to tell the Jesus story without using agricultural metaphors or
atonement theology, what would you say?
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Read the
same story (Creation/Crucifixion/parables/Paul’s letters) in four
different versions of the Bible. If possible, have someone in your group
read and translate the same passage from their native language or a
foreign language. What do the differences tell you?
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Ask your
youth group to retell the story or passage in their own words or to act
it out or do it to music.
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How is
religion portrayed in the movies? On TV? List three movies you’ve seen
in the last five years that deal with spiritual issues:
a) in traditional terms;
b) in non‑traditional terms.
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How has
God constantly knocked on your own spiritual door?
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Are you
more aligned with the Religious Right or the Liberal Left? Why? Which
one supports your theology?
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How have
you (or have you) tried to describe your religious beliefs to
your children? Describe the conversation.
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What does
the theology of “uncertainty” mean? What about the contradiction of
incongruent statements in the Bible?
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If our
interaction with God is to be one of “dialogue rather than doctrine,”
what do we do with the doctrine? How do we dialogue with God?
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How would
it feel to trade what you believe is certain about God for a
“collaborative” relationship with God? What would that look like? How
would it work?
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Is your
congregation inclusive? Of whom? How is this shown practically?
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Are you
collaborative with other denominations locally? How?
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How will
you discern what is “of God” as the LIVING GOD resurrects the DYING
CHURCH?
