WEEKLY SERMON REFLECTIONS

Each week, take 5 days to dive deeper into the heart of our Sunday sermons! Through key insights and scripture, this format will allow for further personal reflection and spiritual growth. Keeping this at the dinner table, discuss it with family and/or friends.

PRAYER OF THE WEEK:

Lord, help me to embrace the interruptions in my life as opportunities to encounter you and reflect your love. Teach me to be interruptible in my thinking, my actions, my heart and in my ways of interacting with others. Help me to respond with grace and compassion. Transform me by your Word and your Holy Spirit within me.
In Jesus’ name, amen.

DAY
01

…and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying. And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven."

Mark 2:1-5

REFLECTION:

If we look at the life of Jesus and the love of God our Father, being interruptible is something He wants us to be. Interruptions are often God’s way of drawing us closer to His plans.

RESPONSE:

Can you think of a time in your life or someone else's when an interruption led to an unexpected blessing?

DAY
02

And a leper came to Jesus, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.” Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed." Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.

Mark 1:40–42

REFLECTION:

INTERRUPTIBILITY is being like Jesus. From the root meaning of the word, we defined interruptibility this way: Being interruptible is being willing to create a 'break / rupture' in your life for something or someone to enter in.

RESPONSE:

How can you be more compassionate when interrupted? What would it look like for you to create ‘break/ruptures’ in your life?

DAY
03

…When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, 'Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.' …
And Jesus said to him, 'Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.'

Luke 19:1–10

REFLECTION:

One way we are called to be interruptible is in the way that we think. God will press us to establish how interruptible we really are. We need to receive Him gladly like Zaccheus did. His interruptibility allowed salvation to come ‘home’.

RESPONSE:

Are you actively positioning yourself for an encounter with Jesus, or do you allow distractions to block your view?

DAY
04

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:1–2

REFLECTION:

Present yourself to be interrupted by God. This IS WORSHIP at its deepest level. Let God lead you in dismantling the ‘culturalization’ of your thinking.

RESPONSE:

In what areas of your life do you feel that God is calling you to think differently? How can you actively invite God to interrupt your thought patterns?

DAY
05

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12

REFLECTION:

When we expose ourselves to the principles of God’s word and invite the Holy Spirit to bring His Truth and counsel to us, then our minds will be renewed to God’s will. Don’t read His Word out of obligation, but rather as a way to transformation.

RESPONSE:

What are some of the areas of thought that you have where you think God wants to interrupt? Maybe in your concept of justice, love, value, self-promotion, worthiness, self-loathing, hopelessness, misery, or your concept of Him even? Pray and invite the Holy Spirit to bring wisdom and change where it's needed.