Here are the ways we prayed and listened during week one. Would you pray along? If you have thoughts, ideas, or impressions from your prayers, please leave them in a comment.

Directions for Prayer

• Thank God for specific blessings and divine activity in Grace’s past.
• Allow God to bring to your mind the specific unique character of Grace and give Him credit for His creation of our church.
• Think through the ways God has used Grace to grow your faith and offer Him thanks.
• Ask God for forgiveness for anything in Grace’s past that may be hindering us and ask for His help.
• Thank God for specific people, leaders and friends and Godly servants, who have been important to your spiritual growth and the identity of our church.

Directions for Listening

• What are the characteristics of Grace that identify us as a body?
• Which of those characteristics are an indispensable part of who God has created us to be?
• Grace will change because change is inevitable. God wants us to change for the better. But what things about Grace do you hope will never change?
• How has Grace been different than other churches you have attended? What explains the difference?

Directions for Action

• What can we do to ensure our unique identity as a body?
• Pray that God would help us pursue our unique role in His kingdom.
• Ask God to show you the things in our past, or in your past, that need to change for us/you to love Him better.
• Ask God to show you how you can meet Him in His plans for Grace.