Hearts class for Sunday, 18 September 2016 with Kay Gilbert of The Heart of Christianity Sunday School Class Lesson at First United Methodist Church in San Diego, California, United States for Saturday, 17 September 2016

Hearts class for Sunday, 18 September 2016 with Kay Gilbert of The Heart of Christianity Sunday School Class Lesson at First United Methodist Church in San Diego, California, United States for Saturday, 17 September 2016
Dear Hearts,
We are reading What The Mystics Know: Seven Pathways To Your Deeper Self by Richard Rohr. This week, we are reading the introduction and Part 1. Please read through page 13.
The questions this week:
page IX What can be gained by contemplation?
What is meant by Rohr’ s reference to
mystics who have “plumbed the depths of both suffering and love?”
1 What does Rohr mean by “living consciously?”
How does that lead to the enlightenment we seek?
2 What is meant by a “sin mystic?”
How is this one of the great mysteries of faith?
3 How does the “true mirror” help us understand we are God in the world?
4 When we “build own house” through prayer, who do we find living there?
5 Mustard seed parable. Discuss.
6 How is it that “dynamis” is holy?
How did you discover your self-worth?
How do you come to suspect that there is something else—something else you must search for?
7 “You can call life forth from anything if you already possess life.”
“Faith creates what it desires.” Agree or disagree?
8 How does one become more holy?
What is our “radical responsibility” with freedom?
9 What is the value of myth? Is myth an untruth?
10 Have you ever had a numinous experience? Will you share it?
Have you seen it’s outcome?
11 How do we acquire the presence of God? What is missing?
Have you experienced radical grace? What was it like?
12 How does one “delight in the Presence?”
“Presence” and “non-duality.” Discuss. This is really tough!
See you Sunday!
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