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God the Father
A liturgy for two lead voices, with responses for congregational reading, examining the nature of our Father God, and how we understand the nature of fatherhood.
(Voice 1)
Our images of fatherhood are shaped by our own experiences, good and bad.
How then can we we understand who this God was that we also call ‘Father’?
As we read the Bible, we came across this single word- Abba.
A word of intimacy.
A word of love.
But it is easy to be confused by all those competing dissonant images…
We easily look around at all these other authority figures for some clues…
The Headmaster (Voice 2)
The Headmaster values application, discipline, and examines our performance with rigour and exactitude. He rewards according to achievement, and punishes wrongdoing with abstract anger that is dependent on position and distance.
But many of us seem to perform poorly in the testing, and our studies are easily distracted by trivial, unworthy matters. Perhaps the best approach is to avoid his wrath, and to try to be invisible, or at least surface-acceptable.
God, cast in this role, is disapproving of our lack of prayer, our under performance in bible study, and much more concerned with all of our apparently higher achieving class mates.
(Invite all to read response)
But
Abba is not a word of examination
It demands no achievements
And sets no unreachable goals
Continues...
A liturgy for two lead voices, with responses for congregational reading, examining the nature of our Father God, and how we understand the nature of fatherhood.
(Voice 1)
Our images of fatherhood are shaped by our own experiences, good and bad.
How then can we we understand who this God was that we also call ‘Father’?
As we read the Bible, we came across this single word- Abba.
A word of intimacy.
A word of love.
But it is easy to be confused by all those competing dissonant images…
We easily look around at all these other authority figures for some clues…
The Headmaster (Voice 2)
The Headmaster values application, discipline, and examines our performance with rigour and exactitude. He rewards according to achievement, and punishes wrongdoing with abstract anger that is dependent on position and distance.
But many of us seem to perform poorly in the testing, and our studies are easily distracted by trivial, unworthy matters. Perhaps the best approach is to avoid his wrath, and to try to be invisible, or at least surface-acceptable.
God, cast in this role, is disapproving of our lack of prayer, our under performance in bible study, and much more concerned with all of our apparently higher achieving class mates.
(Invite all to read response)
But
Abba is not a word of examination
It demands no achievements
And sets no unreachable goals
Continues...
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