Lenten Devotionals
Devotionals are a bit different this year. Instead of writing on 40 different verses for Lent, Westminster is going to focus on six memory verses that take us through the book of John. Each verse will go along with the sermon Pastor Meredith is preaching, and will be from the reading section for the week. We’re encouraging the whole congregation to memorize and meditate on these verses throughout Lent.
We invite you to pick one or more of these memory verses to write a 100-250 word devotional on. As you write, consider the questions: What does this mean to me? How has this impacted my life? Westminster will get to read five different viewpoints and personal stories about each memory verse each week.
You’ll notice that some of these verses are not typical memory verses. For example, during Holy Week, the memory verse is about the soldiers taking Jesus out and crucifying him. That’s because we would like the whole congregation to be thinking about and meditating on that scene from the Gospel. The longer we hold verses like that in our minds, the more the story becomes real to us, and the more we discover different implications for ourselves as disciples.
We invite you to pick one or more of these memory verses to write a 100-250 word devotional on. As you write, consider the questions: What does this mean to me? How has this impacted my life? Westminster will get to read five different viewpoints and personal stories about each memory verse each week.
You’ll notice that some of these verses are not typical memory verses. For example, during Holy Week, the memory verse is about the soldiers taking Jesus out and crucifying him. That’s because we would like the whole congregation to be thinking about and meditating on that scene from the Gospel. The longer we hold verses like that in our minds, the more the story becomes real to us, and the more we discover different implications for ourselves as disciples.