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Shrove Tuesday Prayer (Feb 16 2010)
Pancake Supper: 5:30-7pm
Shrove Tuesday prayer and contemplation: 7pm - 9pm
If you're not a regular attender of Cornerstone, you are welcome to attend our pancake supper and prayer time. The address and mapquest link to the church building can be found on this website under "Where to find us".
Shrove Tuesday
The purpose behind Shrove Tuesday is to prepare oneself through the traditional means of repentance and absolution before embarking on the soul-changing journey of Lent. Whereas Roman Catholics may seek absolution through a priest, as Wesleyans (an evangelical Protestant Denomination), we believe that we find our forgiveness and cleansing through Jesus Christ alone (see here).
However, we can learn from our Catholic brothers and sisters in their regular practice of confession. We Protestants don't do confession very well - an unfortunate casualty to the Reformation. In fact, confession is an alien concept to many of us or, at best, a dusty tome we dutifully pull down from the shelves every once in a while. As a result, we walk around with many unnecessary cares, sin, cobwebs and frustrations tucked away in the nooks and crannies of our soul.
God, the perfect Gentleman continually offers: "Let me take that for you". But we're so used to the extra weight, that it becomes normal. If only we knew the new "normal" Christian life that God has for us!! The freedom from sin and the guilt of sin, the liberty from pride and self-sufficiency, the grasping of the reality that God has called us to cast all our cares upon Him because He. Cares. For. Us. (1 Peter 5:7).
The means that God has given us to release all our sin, junk, anxiety and reliance on self to Him is confession (1 John 1:8-9).
Confession
God created us to be confessors - confessors of His greatness and confessors of our sin, weakness and need of Him. He created us to be free, to cast off the sin that so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1) and to live lives of freedom (Galatians 5:1). So tonight, is an opportunity, in an atmosphere of candlelight and quiet to clear our lives once again of self and to allow God to fill us with Himself.
Prayer Stations
There will be prayer stations set up around the room, each with a different prayer focus. With candle light and quiet background music, I'm hoping that this will be a time of quiet and personal connection between us and God. There will be a freedom and a space in this time of prayer in a manner that perhaps you've never experienced. As we move around the room, using our senses of touch, smell, sight, hearing (and perhaps even taste), we will allow God the Holy Spirit to minister to us as we worship Him.
I hope to see you there!
Pancake Supper: 5:30-7pm
Shrove Tuesday prayer and contemplation: 7pm - 9pm
If you're not a regular attender of Cornerstone, you are welcome to attend our pancake supper and prayer time. The address and mapquest link to the church building can be found on this website under "Where to find us".
Shrove Tuesday
The purpose behind Shrove Tuesday is to prepare oneself through the traditional means of repentance and absolution before embarking on the soul-changing journey of Lent. Whereas Roman Catholics may seek absolution through a priest, as Wesleyans (an evangelical Protestant Denomination), we believe that we find our forgiveness and cleansing through Jesus Christ alone (see here).
However, we can learn from our Catholic brothers and sisters in their regular practice of confession. We Protestants don't do confession very well - an unfortunate casualty to the Reformation. In fact, confession is an alien concept to many of us or, at best, a dusty tome we dutifully pull down from the shelves every once in a while. As a result, we walk around with many unnecessary cares, sin, cobwebs and frustrations tucked away in the nooks and crannies of our soul.
God, the perfect Gentleman continually offers: "Let me take that for you". But we're so used to the extra weight, that it becomes normal. If only we knew the new "normal" Christian life that God has for us!! The freedom from sin and the guilt of sin, the liberty from pride and self-sufficiency, the grasping of the reality that God has called us to cast all our cares upon Him because He. Cares. For. Us. (1 Peter 5:7).
The means that God has given us to release all our sin, junk, anxiety and reliance on self to Him is confession (1 John 1:8-9).
Confession
God created us to be confessors - confessors of His greatness and confessors of our sin, weakness and need of Him. He created us to be free, to cast off the sin that so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1) and to live lives of freedom (Galatians 5:1). So tonight, is an opportunity, in an atmosphere of candlelight and quiet to clear our lives once again of self and to allow God to fill us with Himself.
Prayer Stations
There will be prayer stations set up around the room, each with a different prayer focus. With candle light and quiet background music, I'm hoping that this will be a time of quiet and personal connection between us and God. There will be a freedom and a space in this time of prayer in a manner that perhaps you've never experienced. As we move around the room, using our senses of touch, smell, sight, hearing (and perhaps even taste), we will allow God the Holy Spirit to minister to us as we worship Him.
I hope to see you there!