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39 Cards in this Set
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What are the classical disciplines? |
Prayer, spiritual reading, liturgy. |
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What must change in order for healing? |
Disease causing environment and/or behavior. |
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How does Henri Nouwen define prayer? |
the act by which we give up all false belongings and become free to belong to God and God alone. |
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We want to get closer to God but ... |
realize his demands will increase the closer we get to him. |
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Liturgy elements |
Worship, daily office, study, fasting, retreat. |
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Daily office |
Behaviors that remind us who we are and renew us in our discipleship. |
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What did John see? |
John saw: 1.Opening of the seventh seal. 2. Angel, 3. altar, 4. coals, 5. incense: Incense offering on Day of Atonement in temple in Jerusalem: 1. Angel is given much incense to mix w/Saint’s prayers. 2. Times of prayer in synagogues scheduled to occur at same times of daily sacrifices at the temple in Jerusalem. 3. Prayers mix w/sacrificial fire of God’s holiness in God’s presence. 4. Angel throws coals onto the earth- a. thunder, b. voices, c. lightning, d. earthquake, -God’s disruptive power in the fallen world. |
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Prayer is associated with ... |
sacrifice. |
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Day of atonement |
Day of atonement: 1. Usually, priest selected to offer incense offering was given -a silver censer and -about ½ pound of incense. -But on the Day of Atonement, the day on which God’s people were brought into full and perfect covenant relationship with God, the priest would be given a golden censer and 2. as much incense as he could hold. 3. Priest ascends large sacrificial altar in courtyard in front of sanctuary. -The sacrificial fire perpetually burned on this altar. 4. The priest would scoop coals from sacrificial fire into censer and 5. descend. 6. As he enters the sanctuary, he approaches Altar of Incense, -AKA the Golden Altar, --which stands before Holy of Holies ---God’s Presence was believed to dwell in. 7. Priest places coal on altars and 8. drops incense on coals. 9. Smoke of incense would rise into presence of God in Holy of Holies. |
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What's the only good context for prayer? |
Our relationship w/Jesus Christ. |
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Informational reading |
Done for own purposes of controlling and learning. |
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Formational reading. |
1. Purpose: Opening up to God. 2. OK w/mystery. |
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4 stages of learning |
1. Awakening 2. Purgation 3. Illumination 4. Union |
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6 stages of Lectio Divina |
Silencio Lectio Meditatio Oratio Contemplatio Incarnatio |
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Lectio works |
sensing |
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Meditatio works |
thinking |
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Oratio works |
feeling |
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Contemplatio works |
intuitive |
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Lectio |
Read slowly |
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Meditatio |
Think about what's been said. |
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Oratio |
Talk w/God about it, focusing on feelings. |
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Contemplatio |
Let God work in us. |
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Incarnatio |
Carry out in action. |
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3 aspects of posture towards God |
Silence, solitude, prayer |
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Silence |
Letting go of control on world. |
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Solitude |
Realizing who we are before God. |
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Prayer |
Giving our broken, messed up selves to God. |
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Why is letting go of control immensely important? |
Jesus would not enter into a vital relationship with people who hadn't let go of control. He would not "believe themselves to him". |
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Why did the people who Jesus didn't enter into a vital relationship with believe in Jesus? |
They wanted miracles. |
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Who's an example of people Jesus didn't believe to himself? |
Nicodemus. |
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Who was Nicodemus? |
Pharisee. |
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What did Jesus tell Nicodemus? |
He had to be born again. |
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"The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." |
(John 3:8) |
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"The wind blows wherever it ... |
pleases. |
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"You hear its ..., |
sound. |
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but you cannot tell where it comes ... or where it is ....
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from, going |
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So it is with everyone born of the ..." |
Spirit. |
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Nicodemus was controlling ... |
his relationship w/God. |
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Nicodemus was not ... |
following the Spirit. |
