Deathbed Conversions
By admin on Jan 2, 2008 | In All, Inward Focused | Send feedback »
This contemplative prayer station uses various pictures to help contemplate incongruent attitudes towards people.
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Set up:
This can be at two tables or posted along a wall that the walk along. If on a table they can journal thiner responses or you can cover the table with butcher paper and they can write it directly on the table. If you do a written response you will need paper and pencils and pens. The first set of “Imagine this” goes first and the second “Imagine this goes later. Find pictures on google image to print up and place around the sets in order to bring a visual element to the station. One set of elderly, frail looking people, perhaps some in ————————————————————————————
Imagine This:
These are your parents, your grandparents, your loved ones. They are frail, they are dying. You visit them while on their death bed and they tell you they want to know God. That they were foolish to ignore him their entire life, but they want to change that now. They want to confess their sins and acknowledge Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross.
And with you, they do just that.
What are your feelings?
What are your thoughts?
What questions does this bring up?
Please move to the next set of pictures.
Now look at these faces. Mass murderers, rapists, torturers. What if these people, on their death beds, began to realize their lives were lived in a horrific manner. What if they chose to confess their sins and acknowledge Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross before they died.
How would you feel about that?
What would you be thinking?
What questions would it bring up?
Naturally there may be conflict about how we feel about the “grandma” having a death bed conversion and a mass murderer doing the same.
Why is that?
What do you think God’s opinion would be?
Why is it important to think about this kind of thing?
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