A Way with Words

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Adam T. Trambley. A Way with Words

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A Way

That Transforms

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Second, how people talked about spirituality at church transformed and deepened. At the end of the two years we focused on spirituality, people expected prayer to occur at meetings where it was previously absent. Parishioners became more comfortable asking each other for prayer, even at coffee hour or in informal settings. Spiritual practices and spiritual growth became normal topics of conversation for the parish leadership and were seen as an integral part of a healthy church.

Third, those who were ready to engage a deeper prayer life found the opportunities and the tools they needed, and in some cases new practices really took off. A group of people began “prayerwalking” and praying for the greater community. A healing team was founded and prayed for people after services. After the first read-the-Bible-in-a-year group finished with only two people making it through the entire year, someone else started a read-the-Bible-in-a-year Facebook group. For me this felt like a huge win because the person starting it was not someone I would have pegged as the next person to do a Bible study and because it happened after we had stopped intentionally focusing on spirituality. The change in understanding we hoped to see was manifesting itself in the congregation. People had learned a “new language.”

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