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GROUP NAME _____________________________________________ GROUP LEADERS President/Chair __________________ Phone ______________ Secretary _________________ Treasurer ____________________ NUMBER OF ACTIVE MEMBERS ________________ HOW OFTEN DO YOU MEET ____________________ WHAT IS THE MAIN FOCUS OF YOUR GROUP ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ PLEASE LIST ANY AND ALL ACTIVITIES OR EVENTS YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IN THE LAST YEAR BELOW: __________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________
PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISCERNMENT EXERCISES: I. A BIBLICAL PARABLE OF LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE 1. In what ways does Holy Trinity image the elder son in Luke’s parable?
2. In what ways does Holy Trinity image the father in Luke’s parable?
3. In your experience of Church, what is most essential to you as a group?
I. THE CHURCH LIKENED TO AN INN OF HOSPITALITY 1. What is your experience when you are a visitor in another congregation?
2. When you think of your own parish, how well do you relate to strangers on the threshold?
3. What steps might be taken by your parish to become a more consistent and faithful community of hospitality?
4. In the restructuring of our parishes, are you willing to be both guest and host, no matter what church site serves as the “Inn”?
III. A CONTEMPORARY PARABLE FOR TODAY’S CHURCH 1. Who are you most like?
2. What is a current situation in your lives in which you are having difficulty with change?
3. When you look at the change, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions surface for you?
4. Often change involves fear. Can you identify any fear you have or had about the change?
5. Are there any obstacles or barriers that you have encountered in yourself or others concerning change?
6. Do you find that your initial reaction to the change is your usual reaction to most changes you encounter?
7. What is helpful to you in accepting change in your personal life?
CHANGE WITHIN THE CHURCH
1. Some members of our parish and of our vicariate will willingly accept changes, and some will not. How do we assist those who are resistant to change?
2. What do we offer to those who become so afraid or resistant that they threaten to leave the Church over the possibility of change?
3. How do we lessen people’s fears about moving forward into the unknown?
PLEASE INCLUDE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS YOU FEEL WILL HELP THE TASK FORCE:
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