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Opportunities to Unlock God’s Love at Your Congregation

Opportunities to Unlock God’s Love at Your Congregation. Unlock the Barriers at Your Place of Worship. Restore all people to unity with God and each other . Engage Prison Ministry In your congregation. Receive. Receive God’s love and acceptance.

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Opportunities to Unlock God’s Love at Your Congregation

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  1. Opportunitiesto Unlock God’sLove at Your Congregation

  2. Unlock the Barriersat Your Place of Worship Restore all people to unity with God and each other

  3. Engage Prison Ministry In your congregation

  4. Receive Receive God’s love and acceptance. That act of receiving then becomes our basis for receiving each other

  5. Repent Repenting of our hardness of heart allows us to see others with eyes of compassion and to reach out in love toward them.

  6. Reconcile We can approach people, not with the burden of persuading them to a point of view, but with the joy of showing them a better way, a way of reconciliation and truth.

  7. Restore Restoration teaches us that there is also a time to “come back in” to the unity of God and with each other.

  8. A story about an Early Desert Monk • A soldier asked Abba Mius if God accepted repentance. • After the old man had taught him many things, he said, • “Tell me my dear [friend], if your cloak is torn, do you throw it away?” • He replied, “No, I mend it and use it again.”

  9. The old man said to him, “If you are so careful about your cloak, will not God be equally careful of his creatures?” From Roberta Bondi’s book, To Love as God Loves, page 51. The story continues…

  10. If the Spirit calls you to this ministry, click on the "Contact" link at the top of this page and leave us a message. http://www.prisonministry-edr.org

  11. Episcopal Diocese of Rochester

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