Resources for Continuing Our Pandemic Practices
As you may have already heard, in this next season of ministry, we are centring our church on three core practices for the coming year: Sabbath, listening, and community. These practices are a way we can be found together even when we all can’t gather together.
The spiritual disciplines are how we not only survive this but thrive and flourish within this. But these practices are vital for anytime, any season. These practices are the places where we encounter the living God, the holy habitations where the Spirit meets us.
In case you missed out on our September sermon series exploring the Word behind these practices, you can check it out in this sermon playlist on our Soundcloud.
We’ve included a number of tips and links below to help you in your own journey in leaning into these three key practices we’re participating in as a church.
If you have a story to share from what you’ve been learning in participating in these practices, let us know about it so we can learn with and from you! Email stories@knoxtoronto.org.
Sabbath
Questions to consider:
What are the biggest barriers to practicing Sabbath in your life?
What are some core ways you feel called to set aside time in your week for Sabbath?
Listening
Turn off your device and take a prayer walk in nature, asking for the Holy Spirit to speak to you.
Check out these "Spiritual Rhythms of Grace” guides from Power to Change Students to take a moment to slow down and be in a posture of listening.
Questions to consider:
How are you actively listening for the voice of God?
What are voices in your life aside from Jesus’s voice that clamour for your attention?
Community
Participate in community through getting connected to your Knox Village this season.
Join in our in-person Services of Scripture and Prayer, which you must register for online through the Eventbrite links found here.
Questions to consider:
Which of these aspects of community do you feel like you need to incorporate more into your own life: promise keeping, truthfulness, gratitude, hospitality?
What prevents you from walking in community with others in the Church?
