In Depth
Connections Happen
Life Together and its role in your church
What Is Life Together?
Life Together is a new way to approach Sunday and the rest of the week. It is a way of encountering God's word together - everyday. Life Together integrates worship, preaching and faith formation or learning in order to build strong faith communities.
Imagine the lessons children are learning in Sunday school are reinforced by the pastor's sermon as well as by the hymns and songs of the worshiping assembly. Imagine the same links are made to daily life. Now, stop imaging because it's here!
With Life Together, connections happen.
The Life Together family of resources are a comprehensive tool kit ready to help you make those connections! Based on the Revised Common Lectionary and using the New Revised Standard Version Bible, they integrate worship, preaching and faith formation.
How does it work?
Life Together is based on the idea of integration and connections.
- Learning, worship, and preaching are related encounters with the same Word of God, Jesus Christ.
God is encountered through seeing and hearing the Word. Through reading and teaching, communion and baptism, and with the worshiping community. Faith is fostered through our encounter with God.
- All faith formation resources for children, youth, and adults build upon relationships and encounters with each other, and with the community and with God.
Life Together provides structures and opportunities for encounters with the word of God and in response to the gifts of God — events that can happen:
- In the learning environment.
- In the community at worship.
- In other gatherings of Christians for support, service and witness.
- In the various contexts of daily life.
- A person's experience of life and the world provide the 'hooks' on which the Holy Spirit can attach God's story in order to grow in relationship with God and others.
Life to Bible to Life — taking a person's personal story, responding to it with the biblical story in order to connect that unique life story to God's story. This methodology is beneficial because a person begins to grow in trust and community by connecting his or her particular human story to God's saving story giving one a new understanding of one's personal experience.
About Life Together
The Life Together family of resources is built upon foundations uniting the life of the people of God.
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About_LT.pdf
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Organizing Elements of Life Together Resources
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LT_Elements.pdf
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Life Together Models
Several models are used in these resources upon which to build a congregation's learning ministries.
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LT_models.pdf
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