Beginning with Advent and journeying through the season of Pentecost, our teachings and gatherings at Kairos will be structured according to the seasons of the Christian calendar (Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, the Holy Week of Easter, and Pentecost) and will follow Year C of the Christian lectionary (which primarily uses the Gospel of Luke as the gospel text each week). As we continue talking about our seasonal vision to “move into our spaces” (see this earlier post from Don for more information on our seasonal vision), we desire to see our community experience the depth and beauty of each upcoming season of the Christian calendar.

The Advent season is a period of waiting, expecting, and anticipating the event of Christmas because Christmas is not yet here. This year for Advent, we are focusing on our “Hopes and Fears,” and exploring how our lived experience and present reality is awaiting the truth of the Christmas story. One practice that we are focusing on this season is prayer. In a world full of doubts, questions, and fears, prayer is a chance for us to be fully present before God.

To help our community engage in the journey through the Christian year, I put together a short guide to the Gospel of Luke. It has some basic information about the lectionary, an overview of Luke’s purpose, structure, themes, etc., and some suggestions for different ways of immersing yourself in the story of Jesus through the words of Luke this season.

Download/View Shedding Light on Luke's Gospel

Over the next six months of our journey, I encourage you to fully engage in the story our community is exploring. Immerse yourself in the texts that are shaping us as individuals and as a community. Ask questions about yourself, about the text, about our world, about Jesus. Endeavor to be fully present in your relationship UP to God as a child of the Father.

grace and peace,

/dave