In this message, Pastor Eric reflects on how our habits—things we do regularly and without thinking—shape us and our world, shape our reactions to everything from receiving good news to dealing (or not dealing) with pain and grief.
What might happen if we added intentional rituals to our everyday lives? What might this look like and how might it shape us and our world differently?
With these questions in my, Pastor Eric explores how the rhythm of gathering through rituals that connect us to God, self, others, and creation shaped the earliest followers of Jesus amidst their own chaotic and uncertain times. It was being regularly grounded in these connections that they were able to garner the courage and conviction to boldly bear witness to a countercultural and world-changing Love—to “raise the dead”—even as the world was hostile and violent against them and their message.
Looking at how the rituals of the early church shaped them, we ask ourselves: how might we ground ourselves through the use of these or other rituals so that we might also have the courage and conviction to “raise the dead,” as Jesus calls us to?
