Dream Lectio

On 14 April 2010 we launch e-Dream, a weekly email newsletter. This links to articles and our weekly bible reading, so Lectio updates will be posted on the main site.

If you’d like to subscribe to e-Dream, just go to www.dream.uk.net, and you’ll see a space to subscribe at the top of the homepage. It will include…

1. A thought for the week. This is kind of “Dream to go”. A very short article to mull on, with a link if you’d like to add a comment or read the comments of others.

2. ‘Lectio’ our weekly bible passage that has been on this blog. We’re now going to build that into e-Dream and the main dream site so you don’t get too many emails.

3. News and Events. It can be difficult to keep track of when different groups are meeting or events coming up, so e-dream will always have a list of events coming up in the next month.

There will also sometimes be interesting links or useful resources.

It’s going to take quite an investment of energy to send e-dream each week, but we’re excited at the potential it has to increase our connectedness and nurture us as we seek to follow Jesus in a busy and confusing world.

Jesus, having prayed, left with his disciples and crossed over the brook Kidron at a place where there was a garden. He and his disciples entered it. Judas, his betrayer, knew the place because Jesus and his disciples went there often. So Judas led the way to the garden, and the Roman soldiers and police sent by the high priests and Pharisees followed. They arrived there with lanterns and torches and swords. Jesus, knowing by now everything that was coming down on him, went out and met them. He said, “Who are you after?”

They answered, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

He said, “That’s me.” The soldiers recoiled, totally taken aback. Judas, his betrayer, stood out like a sore thumb.

Jesus asked again, “Who are you after?”

They answered, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

“I told you,” said Jesus, “that’s me. I’m the one. So if it’s me you’re after, let these others go.” (This validated the words in his prayer, “I didn’t lose one of those you gave.”)

Just then Simon Peter, who was carrying a sword, pulled it from its sheath and struck the Chief Priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. Malchus was the servant’s name.

Jesus ordered Peter, “Put back your sword. Do you think for a minute I’m not going to drink this cup the Father gave me?”

We’re re-launching Lectio – a weekly passage from the bible posted here. The aim is to help the Dream community reflect on the same passage and share thoughts, questions and comments on this website- allowing God to speak to us through each other.

Let me introduce myself; my name is Andy Wain and have been involved with Dream for a couple of years and have recently started training as a Lay Reader for Dream (that is a person who is trained to preach and be part of the leadership of an Anglican church).

In this new season of Lectio until Easter we are going to look at some of the highlights from Jesus’ life. The passage will be posted each Friday and as usual a reminder will be sent by email.

Reflecting on the words of God through the bible has to be one of the most effective ways of letting Him speak to us.

Andy Wain

Right we’re going to start up lectio� again from today.

Just to encourage you to enjoy the reading and the comments of others, but also to be brave and add your own.

-No question is too dumb (someone else was thinking it too!)

-No observation is too obvious.

-No thought is too heretical.

It would be especially great to have personal application… “this spoke to me…”, “this touches my life…”, “this winds me up…”, etc.

Richard

Lectio will take a short break until early in the New Year, so you can� use the time to reflect again on the wonder of the passages we read at this time of year.

God became human, small and weak…

As we head into Christmas, we’ll take a break from the weekly reading until 9th Jan.

Might be a good time to reflect (and comment if you like):

-Which passage most struck you over the past year?

-Has this way of reading the bible continued to help you?

-Would you want to change the way you use “lectio”� in 2008?

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Our collected� comments at the end of Matthew made it pretty clear that it will be helpful to slow things. So we’re going to carry on into Marks gospel, but with just one passage per week.

Obviously feel free to revisit the passage (or a small part of it) and add any comments as often as you like.

� fasten seat belts… lets go (slowly)

Well we got to the end of Matthew! Well done to those who’ve stuck at it, especially given some of the technical hitches and delays from my end.

Next stop is Mark’s gospel. We can carry on as we have been with a passage each day. I wondered though whether some people feel overwhelmed trying to catch up when they miss a few days. How about going slower for a while, with just one passage each week.

I think I’ll personally still plan to use it every (well almost every) day, but either just keep meditating on that one passage for a week, or take a sentence from it per day, or something like that. That way hopefully I’ll come up with at least one comment I want to add to the discussion part each week.

Anyway, this is our thing, so please make your suggestions for what will work for you.

We’ll start the next phase in a few days.

It’s resurrection time. Hope you had a good Easter break, lets bring this thing back to life!

And we’ve got a nice, light, cheerful one to get us started….