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November - Week One

Open In Prayer 

Begin by praying together – taking some intentional time to invite the Holy Spirit into your gathering.


Below is an optional liturgy you could pray: 

Help us, Father, to not live in the shadows of shame and fear, nor to believe the lie we're unwanted, or unloveable. Teach us now as we gather together to share the load, and to help others release theirs, that in loving one another we may be more like You in this world. Amen.

Table Conversations

This is space during your gathering to share a meal, build relationships, and enjoy one another. 


  • What are a couple of items on your personal “dopamine menu”?


  • What is one answered prayer and one unanswered prayer in your life from the past year?


Learning: Practicing The Way: Sabbath Session Four - "Worship"

Watch the fourth and final session of Practicing The Way’s Sabbath Practice, “Worship”, and engage in the group discussion as the session prompts you to do so. 


  1. In what ways is it easy for your practice of sabbath to become “sabbish,” more of a day off than a day of worship?


  1. How do you enjoy God? What practices, disciplines, or activities bring you genuine joy in God?


  1. What “false gods” are you tempted to worship, which, while they may be very good things (or not), pull you away from your holy center in God?


Practice: Sabbath - Fixed-Hour Prayer & Enjoying God

Refer to the Companion Guide for all of the specific details of the practices. 


  1. Practice a light and life-giving version of what the ancients called “fixed-hour prayer.”

    1. All this means is you pause two to three times during your 24-hour sabbath to pray.


  1. Identify two to three practices by which you enjoy God and do them.


[If you are looking for ways to go deeper, the Practicing The Way: Sabbath Companion Guide offers optional “reach practices”. Overachievers in the room: there is not an expectation to complete the reach practices, these are simply available for those who have the interest and capacity.]

November Accountability Partner

For November, identify a partner within your Ethos Community that shares your same gender. This should be someone different than you were just paired with for October! 


Your role as accountability partners is to do the following: 


  1. Schedule a time to hang one-on-one in person with your accountability partner during the month of November. Consider inviting each other into the lives you’re already living instead of having to create extra margin (ie: meal prep together, walk the dog together, run errands together).


  2. Encourage one another as you lean into the practices via text etc! :)


End in Prayer

Before you conclude, spend some time as a Community praying for one another.


Below is an optional liturgy you could pray: 

Lord Jesus, there is no greater prayer than yours - make us one as you are one, in devotion, in living, in love. Amen.

 
 
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