Contemplative Prayer Stations

This contemplative prayer station invites people into the mystery of God by focusing on their view on certain paradoxes.
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Directions for Leadership:
This is a hard one to set up. We used 4 movable room dividers and set 2 up on one side and the other 2 up across from those… making a long hallway down the middle. About 5 feet of the ground (high enough to duck under, low enough for short people to reach) we strung a several ropes going back and forth across the “hallway". On one side of the rope we would put one side of a paradox and on the other side the opposite side of a paradox. People would take a cloths pin and put it on the rope where their line of thinking tends to sit. For example, I am a firm “free will” girl, so I would put my clothes pin on the side closest to that side for that particular paradox. On the floor along the sides put bibles for people to look things up along the way.

At the entrance of the Hallway put the directions along with a basket of clothes pins (enough for every person to take 6). At the end put the quote from the book Blue like Jazz.
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Paradoxes - conflicting ideas that are both somehow true

The Christian faith must include paradoxes, because it deals with God, whom no human mind can understand.

Directions:

Take 6 clothespins.

As you walk inside the “hallway” you will see an idea on each side of you and a rope overhead connecting them. The ideas are paradoxes from within the Christian Faith. Take a moment to think about each then hang a clothespin on the line above you to mark where you tend to believe.
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These are for printing up and putting at each end of the ropes….
Look below
Predestination
(God chooses who will believe)
Romans 8:29-30 Ephesians 1:5
Free Will
(God allows us to choose)
Revelations 3:20
Luke 11:9

There is only one God
Deuteronomy 6:4
God is three persons
The Trinity is the name we give to the concept of God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit that is found through out scripture.
Matthew 28:19

Jesus was human
Luke 19:10
1 Timothy 2:5
Jesus was God
Matthew 16:15-16

God is infinitely loving.
Ephesians 2:4-5
God is infinitely just.
Acts 17:31

Saved by Faith
Ephesians 2:8
Good works
Matthew 25:31-46
James 2:18-20

God is Omniscient (knows everything, all our needs, thoughts, and actions)
Psalm 139
God tells us to pray
1 Timothy 2:8
2 Chronicles 7:14

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Put this quote at the end….

“Too much time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder…”
– Donald Miller in Blue like jazz