{"id":374,"date":"2007-01-27T03:19:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T03:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elli.annall.is\/2007-01-27\/03.19.13"},"modified":"2007-01-27T03:19:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T03:19:13","slug":"031913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2007\/01\/27\/031913\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u00f0 m\u00e6ta Jes\u00fa &#8211; Meeting Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9g var r\u00e9tt \u00ed \u00feessu a\u00f0 lj\u00faka vi\u00f0 fyrstu dr\u00f6g a\u00f0 kennslustund sem \u00e9g mun nota \u00ed Christ Lutheran, sunnudaginn 3. febr\u00faar. H\u00fan er n\u00fana \u00ed yfirlestri hj\u00e1 kennaranum m\u00ednum \u00ed Ministry of Educating. \u00deetta er \u00feri\u00f0ja stundin af \u00feremur \u00ed kennslur\u00f6\u00f0 en hinar tv\u00e6r voru s\u00f3ttar \u00ed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkjan.is\/kirkjustarf\/?unglingastarf\/aeskulydsefni_2001\">\u00c6skul\u00fd\u00f0sefni \u00fej\u00f3\u00f0kirkjunnar<\/a> 2001-2002 og sta\u00f0f\u00e6r\u00f0ar a\u00f0 a\u00f0st\u00e6\u00f0um h\u00e9r \u00ed BNA. \u00c1hugas\u00f6mum til gagns og yndisauka \u00fe\u00e1 er stundin h\u00e9r, \u00e1 ensku:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nFEB 3: MEETING JESUS? &#8211; VERSION 0.9<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Goal<\/strong><br \/>\nThe goal of this meeting is to have the participants thinking about what it means to meet Jesus. Is Kingdom of God something that awaits us in the future or has it broken in to our present time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Material at hand<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; The song \u201cI can Only Imagine\u0094 performed by MercyMe<br \/>\n&#8211; A CD player or other equipment to play music.<br \/>\n&#8211; Blackboard<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preparation<\/strong><br \/>\nBe sure the music equipment works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What we will do<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I can Only Imagine<\/em><br \/>\nWe start today\u0092s session by listening to the song \u201cI can only imagine\u0094. And after the song we discuss the lyrics.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nDiscussion about meeting Jesus<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have you thought about what Heaven is like? \u0096 Possibility of drawing \/ painting<\/li>\n<li>How do you think you would act when you meet Jesus up there?<\/li>\n<li>But if Jesus would come and attend church on Sunday, what would you do then?<\/li>\n<li>But if you would meet Jesus in the cafeteria at your School, what would you do then?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Reading from \u0096 Mt 25.31-40.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tonight, Jesus Served hush puppies<\/em><br \/>\nOn the advent before last Christmas I went with a group from Trinity Lutheran Seminary to New Orleans, helping and learning about disaster. The group wrote a blog while staying down there and I want to read from you one piece written by a person name Adam Forbes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last night, we a well-deserved and much needed &#8220;fun day&#8221; in the French Quarters. It was a great time simply enjoying the felllowship of the group &amp; taking a break from seeing and talking about depressing things. The time was refreshing, renewing &amp; renovating. But just when I thought the night couldn&#8217;t get any better&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I met Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The entire gang had dinner at Ralph &amp; Kacoos, a restaurant with fine dining &amp; even better service. Our server, Ryan brought us Cajun gator and excellent hush puppies, fresh from the oven. Throughout the meal, Ryan shared parts of his story; of moving to Maryland, and still dealing with his mother being in Texas, all while trying to get into nursing school. As we were talking on the way out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I met Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther once said that we are to be &#8220;little Christs&#8221; to one another, that when we serve others, we are kneeling for the &#8220;least of these&#8221; and serving Jesus. But all too often we overlook the other half of that imagery, for we&#8217;re not only to serve others as if they themselves were our Lord, but also that we see Jesus in other people.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I met Jesus through Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>As Ryan concluded his story, 5 of us sem&#8217; reps and Ryan joined together, standing on holy ground right in the middle of the restaurant and held hands and only by the power of the Holy Spirit, we thanked God and prayed for Ryan (I KNOW it was the Holy Spirit because 1. Lutherans do not pray outloud in public and 2. Lutherans really don&#8217;t pray in the middle of a restaurant).<\/p>\n<p>As we left the restaurant, I was on a &#8220;spiritual high.&#8221; As we sat down for some great jazz at Preservation Hall, the first tune of &#8220;That Old Rugged Cross&#8221; reminded me just remarkable our Savior is, holy yet humble.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that cross is rugged, splintered and bloodied, but the cross is also empty.<br \/>\nGod defeated death as a promise that from anything, there can spring new life.<\/p>\n<p>I know Jesus washed feet, but tonight I saw Jesus serve hush puppies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>How do we meet Jesus &#8211; discussion<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can we meet Jesus in our daily life?<\/li>\n<li>What can we do to make the Jesus-es we meet have a better life?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Commitment<\/em><br \/>\nEverybody is supposed to write a letter with one thing they plan to do next week to make Jesus life a little better today. They will get the letter back next Sunday (or at some other time) to remind them of their commitment.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nReading Revelation 21.1-7<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reflection<\/em><br \/>\nHow is it in Heaven? What does Kingdom of God mean? The Bible gives us short glimpse of the future. The Kingdom of God, is where God\u0092s will is in all things -everything is good and acceptable and perfect. Jesus calls us to bring the kingdom of God, into the present time. We are called to life in the assurance that God is with us. We are already part of the kingdom and should life our life in accordance to that. John\u0092s vision in the Revelation will not come fully to being here on Earth, but we should strive to make because Jesus tells us too. Of course it is not easy, I am sure that John, exiled at the island Panos in the Mediterranean Sea, had gone through a lot of disappointments, he might even have thought that Jesus would come back in John\u0092s own life time. But he did not lose his vision.<br \/>\nBut whatever we do, wherever we are, we are called to serve Jesus in our neighbor, and by doing so bring the Kingdom of God; into the life of the people we meet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prayer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9g var r\u00e9tt \u00ed \u00feessu a\u00f0 lj\u00faka vi\u00f0 fyrstu dr\u00f6g a\u00f0 kennslustund sem \u00e9g mun nota \u00ed Christ Lutheran, sunnudaginn 3. febr\u00faar. H\u00fan er n\u00fana \u00ed yfirlestri hj\u00e1 kennaranum m\u00ednum \u00ed Ministry of Educating. \u00deetta er \u00feri\u00f0ja stundin af \u00feremur \u00ed kennslur\u00f6\u00f0 en hinar tv\u00e6r voru s\u00f3ttar \u00ed \u00c6skul\u00fd\u00f0sefni \u00fej\u00f3\u00f0kirkjunnar 2001-2002 og sta\u00f0f\u00e6r\u00f0ar a\u00f0 a\u00f0st\u00e6\u00f0um &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2007\/01\/27\/031913\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A\u00f0 m\u00e6ta Jes\u00fa &#8211; Meeting Jesus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,168],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-my-studies","tag-youthwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}