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On the Third Day: this was the title of the Lent course followed by a group of 14 people during Lent. The course is from an organisation called ‘York Courses’ and follows the pattern of readings set out in a course booklet, with a number of possible questions for each of the 5 sessions. This was accompanied by a CD with observations from a varied group of well known Christian thinkers. For this course the thinkers were:
Bishop John Pritchard; Rt Revd Tom Wright; Prof Paul Vallely; Revd Ruth Gee, Rt Revd Libby Lane
We had planned to meet over 5 weeks, but snow caused one week to be postponed. However, in the 4 sessions we had, the discussions were lively as we debated around the following areas:
What is the evidence for the resurrection? We concluded much depends on faith, but we do have ‘The empty Tomb’, ‘the Resurrection Appearances’, ‘The transformation of the disciples’ ‘The development of the church and what was said about Jesus’. Whilst this is a very complicated topic, we felt our role was to make it as easy as possible to understand and for us, as disciples, to explain things as well as we could.
Why is Easter so short and why don’t we have bigger celebrations and more publicity? This lead to an animated discussion with all agreeing that we need more explanations, better ‘marketing’ and things like posters up outside the Churches. It lead to the development of a Easter Card, to be distributed to all households!
The Church of England is trying to help us and has published a summary of works it has been doing – on ‘Setting God’s People Free’. They are encouraging us to be The Good News of Jesus in all our life, Monday to Saturday, as well as Sunday. They are talking about 2 major shifts in thinking:
PCC’s and Deaneries will be encourages to see what steps they can identify which will really make a different – with plans for the next month, the next 6 months and in 2 years. Please pray for this work.
These reflections are what I saw from the course – other group members may have different views!
Maddie Hedley
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