Advent and Christmas 2015: Room at the Inn
Advent and Christmas 2015: Room at the Inn
Throughout Advent Ekklesia will be opening a daily ‘window’ onto our Christmas appeal theme – ‘Room at the Inn’: how to make room in our hearts, our churches, our lives and our world for the coming of a different order. We will discover that this can happen in a variety of different ways: welcoming the stranger (the current refugee crisis), combatting stigmatism and prejudice (HIV/AIDS, mental health issues and more), preserving the habitat (global warming and climate change), working for peacemaking and peace-building (the fractured situation throughout the Middle East) and more. Each day we will offer a meditation on a verse of Scripture, and a practical action to accompany prayer and self-examination in what is a penitential – but also profoundly hopeful – season.
6 December
The angel said, “You must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.” (Revelation 10. 11)
Christ calls us to speak the truth in anticipation of the future God will gift us.
Action: Support Amnesty International’s campaign against the silencing of dissident voices: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/Free-speech