Mosaic Teaching Guide
The First Sunday in Lent
1 March 09

1. The Prayer of Jesus
1. Questions for Everyone: If you could eradicate one of the world’s problems, what would it be?
2. “Your will be done on earth!”
2. In Our Beginning is Our End
1. Creation Narrative (Gen. 2)
3. The Prophetic Imagination
1. A Lion and Lamb World
2. From Bradley Fighting Machine to Combines
3. From Rifles to Hoes
4. The Life and Teachings of Jesus
1. Teaching
2. Healing
3. Preaching
5. A New Earth
1. John’s Vision of a Healed World
6. Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World
1.  Practicing Tikkun Olam through . . .
1. our words
2. our presence
3. our relationship to our spouses/parents/children
7. The Resurrection: Our Ultimate Hope
1. Life after Life after Death.
2. “We labor not in vain” (St. Paul).

Mosaic Study Guide
For Personal Reflection or Smaller Group Gatherings

Questions for Everyone:  If you had the power to eradicate one of the world’s problems which would you choose?  What do you think happens to a person after they die?

We discussed the various “images of hope” from the biblical narrative that give us a hint of God’s desire for God’s world. 

Question: Of the various images; Eden, Lion and Lamb world, John’s vision in Revelation, the resurrection, which image helps you to understand God’s desire for God’s world?

Inherent in our conversation is that there is a vital relationship between the future and this present moment. 

Question: What is the nature of that relationship?  How should our end shape the present?

We discussed what N.T. Wright calls “life after life after death.”  That is God creating a resurrected world in which death will finally die and the world will be finally made whole. The things we do now, can contribute to that new world.

Question: How might this change the way we live?

 

 

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