Session 45: Where Will You Go from Here?
Where to now?
If you persisted through the whole forty-five or more sessions of meeting with a JP21 cohort, as well as reading and doing the exercises in the Via Vida Guidebook as well as exploring the related material on the JP21 Via Vida website, you probably find yourself with a different perspective on life, faith, and the way of Jesus Christ than what you had at the beginning. Perhaps it has clarified some things for you, or perhaps it has completely rerouted the direction of your life.
Whatever your experience, it is important that you continue to find ways to incorporate these teachings into your life. This leads us into the final Spiritual Practice: Following a Rule of Life. In this final session, it is important to share together what further directions you feel called to take. Perhaps you will be led to do deeper Disentangling work. Perhaps you will be called to engage in social justice work. Perhaps you will be called to practice a regular set of spiritual disciplines. Perhaps you will be called to serve as a facilitator for other JP21 Via Vida cohorts. Maybe a combination of several or all of these things. The important thing is to put into practice what you have learned, and what has moved within your heart and soul.
That is the Way of Jesus in the 21st Century.
If you persisted through the whole forty-five or more sessions of meeting with a JP21 cohort, as well as reading and doing the exercises in the Via Vida Guidebook as well as exploring the related material on the JP21 Via Vida website, you probably find yourself with a different perspective on life, faith, and the way of Jesus Christ than what you had at the beginning. Perhaps it has clarified some things for you, or perhaps it has completely rerouted the direction of your life.
Whatever your experience, it is important that you continue to find ways to incorporate these teachings into your life. This leads us into the final Spiritual Practice: Following a Rule of Life. In this final session, it is important to share together what further directions you feel called to take. Perhaps you will be led to do deeper Disentangling work. Perhaps you will be called to engage in social justice work. Perhaps you will be called to practice a regular set of spiritual disciplines. Perhaps you will be called to serve as a facilitator for other JP21 Via Vida cohorts. Maybe a combination of several or all of these things. The important thing is to put into practice what you have learned, and what has moved within your heart and soul.
That is the Way of Jesus in the 21st Century.
Session Outline - Wrap-Up and Final Reflections:
- Regather, greet
- Practice Centering Prayer
- Scripture Study: Mathew 28:16-20 and Acts 1:1-11.
- What image or phrases caught your attention?
- What was most puzzling?
- What would you like to learn more about?
- What really spoke to your heart?
- View video for Session 44.
- Read “Where Will You Go From Here?”
- Read and discuss Spiritual Practice #7: A Rule of Life
- Share observations and what you have learned and gained from working through this Via Vida.
- Discuss any next steps you feel called to take.
- Close in Prayer.
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