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October 2004: Miracles 1

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the first of a series of two services looking at miracles inspired by jeffrey john's talks at greenbelt 04.

order of service:

Call to worship

Songs:

Couple of songs

Movies:

Simpson's clip/Life of Brian clip

Discussion:

Discussion of miracles and feedback (people to write miracles they remember on a big sheet so we have a record of them.)

Jeffrey John:

Inspiration for service and summary of Jeffrey John book with clips from GB tape (see below for summaries)
A summary of Jeffrey John's book "The Meaning in the Miracles"
From Jeffrey John - the wedding at Cana
From Jeffrey John - the healing of the paralysed man

Ignatian reading:

Pool of Bethesda (taken from de Mello book)

Stations:

a) Water into wine

take a glass and pour some water from the jug
fill the pipette with wine from the glasses
make some droplets of wine fall into your glass of water
watch how it spreads, changing the colour and flavour

how much of you is water?
how much of you is wine?
do you let the wine of god fall into you?
do you thirst for it?

add some more wine into your water, and drink it.

b) Hem to touch

c) Inclusion/exclusion

stories and post-it notes

d) faith

Water into wine:

Conclusion:

Need for belief and concluding ritual


Photos

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Water into wine: take a glass and pour some water from the jug.

Water into wine: Wine in water bottles a water glass.

Water into wine: Water in a wine bottle and wine glass.

Water into wine: fill the pipette with wine from the glasses. Make some droplets of wine fall into your glass of water. Watch how it spreads, changing the colour and flavour.

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