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URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/sacred-text-reading-group-2022-02-05/
SUMMARY:Sacred Text Reading Group (Saturday)
DESCRIPTION:Sacred Text Reading Group (Saturday)  \n\n\nA twice-weekly onli
 ne sacred text reading group. We meet on Saturdays\, 4-5\, and on Wednesda
 ys\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcome!\n\nUsing a spiritual-pra
 ctice approach\, in each session we will explore a different brief scriptu
 ral text in depth. The aims of the sessions are educational (learning some
 thing about the texts and traditions)\, spiritual/moral (discovering what 
 the texts ask of us)\, and community-building (getting to know each other 
 better). Our practice usually follows this version of Lectio Divina.\n\nTh
 e facilitator will have a version of the text available to share\; “brin
 g” your own if you like. All are welcome\, as are your suggestions of fu
 ture texts. Group members also take turns facilitating\, if they want to t
 ry that role.\n\n\nOur text for Saturday\, February 5 is from the 20th cen
 tury Scottish writer\, George Macdonald\, from Unspoken Sermons:\n\n[...] 
 I would rather have a man holding [...] what seem to me the most obnoxious
  untruths\, opinions the most irreverent and gross\, if at the same time h
 e lived in the faith of the Son of God\, that is\, trusted in God as the S
 on of God trusted in him\, than I would have a man with every one of whose
  formulas of belief I utterly coincided\, but who knew nothing of a daily 
 life and walk with God. The one\, holding doctrines of devils\, is yet a c
 hild of God\; the other\, holding the doctrines of Christ and his Apostles
 \, is of the world\, yea\, of the devil. 'How! a man hold the doctrine of 
 devils\, and yet be of God?' Yes\; for to hold a thing with the intellect\
 , is not to believe it. A man's real belief is that which he lives by\; an
 d that which the man I mean lives by\, is the love of God\, and obedience 
 to his law\, so far as he has recognized it.\n\nTo have check-in time\, or
  if you are new and would like a brief orientation\, arrive ten minutes ea
 rly. And all are welcome to stay ten minutes after as well\, for more gett
 ing-acquainted time.\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n 	Join this class from your Web 
 browser: https://zoom.us/j/578882781\n 	Join this class using the Zoom app
 : Meeting ID: 578 882 781\n 	Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (Sa
 n Jose)\, Meeting ID: 578 882 781\n 	Join this class by on-tap on mobile p
 hones: +16699009128\,\,578882781# US (San Jose)\n 	Phoning in\, but not in
  the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Adult,Classes,Learning,Small Groups
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