{"id":1327,"date":"2016-03-06T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2021-02-25T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:00:49","slug":"sacrament-as-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/2016\/03\/06\/sacrament-as-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrament as Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Click here to listen to the full service<\/a><\/p>\n

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to listen to the sermon only<\/a><\/p>\n

Came to himself\u2026.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Scripture<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

J Wesley, 5 means of grace<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Bible, reading and memory, examples<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Luke: \u00a0what is absent (religion), spiritual not religious, greek and gnostic, Delphic oracle<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Bible full of variety, not a single theme (eg Gospels)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Diversity preceded unity in earliest Christianity<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Marrow of Gospel; grace, freedom, pardon, acceptance, mercy, reconciliation, peace, acceptance, inclusion, embrace\u2026love<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

2 Cor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

1 John 4: 7<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Fasting<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Meaning, diet and exercise<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Wesley, T\\F, horseback, 5am preaching<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

We, spirit, soul, body<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Spiritual Yoga: integration, stillness community<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span><\/i>Ministry on campus: \u00a0worship, relationship, safety<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Lent has its point here\u2014though we are not meant to live in Lent, we live in Easter, and Sundays remind us so in Lent<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Prayer<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Public and private, all year this year at Marsh<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Senses, Language, Practice, Architecture, Sacrament of Prayer<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Moment, quiet, meditation, walk, pause, own-most self<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Have no anxiety about anything\u2026Phil 4<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

In this nave, week by week\u2014nothing<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Well being vs work\\ production vs self\\immediacy vs imagination<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Sacrament<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Mystery, definition, two, five rites, sign, grace, simplest elements, entry\\journey, belonging\\meaning, beginning\\sustaining, prevenient\\sanctifying<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving (eucharist), remembrance, presence<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Ever need to take a spiritual shower? (Remember baptism)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Cleanse, from misuse of public forms of rhetoric, meant to allow difference, courtesy maintains a way to disagree, sermon prayer speech address debate, when gears stripped, better angels, ask not, then the path opens from a civil society to social incivility, be careful what you find entertaining, or where, where entertainment ever TRUMPS engagement<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Grief as a sacrament<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Conversation<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Luke 15 is a conversation, barely engaged<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The week at Marsh<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Circles of 6-12 people<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Sherry Turkel 2 books<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

What is an education\u2014periodic table or finding one\u2019s voice?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Soul and World Soul, Word and Word of God, <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Thurman to recite 139<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Sacrament as Prayer: \u00a0mark the means of grace: \u00a0Scripture, fasting, prayer, sacrament, Christian conversation<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

– The Reverend Doctor, Robert Allan Hill, Dean.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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