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Teach Us to PrayWebinar 2Praying the Scriptures
Presented by The Upper Room and Interpreter Magazine
March 19, 2013
Hosts
THE REV. KATHY NOBLEEditor, Interpreter and Interpreter
OnLine
THE REV. TOM ALBINDean and Director of Ecumenical Relations, The
Upper RoomThe Upper Room, www.upperroom.orgInterpreter,
www.interpretermagazine.orgMonthly Webinarswww.umc.org/pray
Lord, Teach Us to Pray
PresentersTHE REV. BETH RICHARDSON
ANDREW DREITCERTHE REV. KATHY BARBA PIERCE
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To pray the Scriptures
Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
is a slow, meditative reading and reflection on a passage of
Scripture.Lectio Divina
A process of
ReadingReflectingRespondingResting
Lectio Divina
Pick a portion of Scripture.Set aside some time when you wont be
interrupted.Read the text 3 times, listening for a different thing
each time.
Lectio Divina
First reading:
Listen for the word or phrase that leaps out at you.What word or
phrase calls to you or sticks in your memory?
Lectio Divina
Second reading:
Meditate on the word or phrase that speaks to you.Let it
interact with your thoughts, your hopes, your memories.Consider how
the word or phrase is touching your life today.
Lectio Divina
Third reading:
Consider how God is calling you forth into doing or being.Allow
God to use these words to shape your life.
Lectio Divina
Spend a few more minutes in prayer and meditation.Make some
notes in your journal.Go in Gods peace and love.Audio Lectio
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Praying Scripture
.with the Imagination.
Throughout Christian history there have two general paths of
praying with Scripture in a slow, receptive style (and both are
versions of lectio divina).
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One way DE-emphasizes the imagination: as you get closer to the
experience of God there are fewer mental images and words and
thoughts.
And theres another way
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This other way emphasizes.
Using the imagination when praying Scripture.As images from
praying with scripture increase, the experience of Gods presence
increases. The images carry you into a sense of God with you.
(Especially seen in Ignatius of Loyola 16th century Spain and in
Franciscan prayer in the Middle Ages, but stretching back to the
first centuries of Christianity.)
Engage the spiritual senses (interior senses that mirror the 5
exterior senses)Imagine yourself into the scene/situation the
passage describes. What do you:See?Hear?Taste?Touch?Smell?And who
are you in the scene? What are you feeling as it unfolds? What do
you say and do?
18Basic elements of praying Scripture by using the
Imagination.Set aside a time of 20 minutes or so and choose a bit
of Scripture, e.g., a story of Jesus. Settle into a sense of
stillness, inviting a sense of Gods presence.Read and become more
familiar with the Scripture passage, and set it aside.Imagine
yourself into the scene using your 5 spiritual senses (without
worrying about getting details right.): Who and what is here? What
do I hear, see, taste, touch, smell? What do I feel? Who am I? What
am I doing and saying?Allow Gods Spirit to carry your imagination
into a connection with the life of Jesus.And allow yourself to feel
that connection.When this image-filled prayer has run its course,
perhaps you might journal what you have experienced.Conclude with a
prayer of thanks for Gods presence and what has come to you in this
time.
The purpose of this kind of prayer is to intimately connect your
life with Jesus life so that youMore fully experience Gods loving
compassion for you.
More fully develop feelings of compassion.
More fully develop compassionate ways of behaving that free
yourself and others.
More fully discern your Christ-like vocation in life.
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Praying the ScripturesWhile Journeying to the Stations
Rethinking Stations of the CrossBrentwood United Methodist
ChurchBrentwood, Tennessee
Lenten Cross WalkBroadway Christian Parish United Methodist
ChurchSouth Bend, Indiana
Stations of the Resurrection
Wesley Memorial United Methodist ChurchHigh Point, North
Carolina
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PresentersTHE REV. BETH RICHARDSON
ANDREW DREITCERTHE REV. KATHY BARBA PIERCE
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Becoming a Praying Congregation
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