HUB Session – Generosity

Use this resource for a shared conversation around generosity in your next HUB conversion. It might be a helpful way to go deeper with the challenge and call of generosity in your life.

Film series by Diana Butler Bass

https://www.theworkofthepeople.com/film_series/grateful

If you wanted to dig into this theme of generosity a bit more, this series could prove really valuable. Once you’ve purchased the series (you could pay for a 1 month membership) you could watch it together over a series of weeks (An online platform like ZOOM is a very useful way of utilising the resource if those in your HUB live geographically remote from each other).

Gratitude Meditation

This prayer from Walter Brueggemann is rich and provocative. It causes us to consider our personal response to God and His creation.

Print out the prayer and use it on a regular basis this month

Three Words

Talk about the Three Word Challenge together.

See what insights and help come from your conversation.

There maybe other words or events that bring a new perspective from those who know you and have journeyed with you.

Check out this resource.

Plan a trip

With your HUB or the friends you spiritually journey with, consider the possibility of a trip, expedition or journey together this year. (even if you don’t live geographically close to each other)

Have a conversation guided by the themes of love, generosity, surrender or mission and ask yourselves “what places or locations could or should we travel to?”

The trip could be as short as a few hours or as long as a few days.

But maybe there is a place or a people that you could bless or learn from together.

Spend some time planning and plotting!!

Assign some tasks – pray together – and give yourself a specific time to agree on the location. Then get to work.

New Years Revolution

The drive to improve your own fitness, health and diet is something that many people concentrate on come January.

Instead why not not make the generous step towards helping someone else this January – be it their physical, social, mental or spiritual health.

Instead of starting the year focusing on yourself find ways to help that someone who could do with your help.

Think prayerfully, strategically and compassionately.

Who’s new year could you help start better?

Advent 4×4

These 4 locations accompanied by the 4 suggested devotionals give you the opportunity to approach Advent in a different way and hopefully discover new depths of insight into living a life of love, surrender, mission and generosity. During the 4 weeks of Advent we’d encourage you to plan trips to these four locations/scenes, or if that’s not possible then you can use the video resource to help set the scene. Pack a notebook and a friend for the journey!

Let us know if you’re going to try and explore this journey using the form below – we’ll keep you updated with fellow practitioners around the world!

Download PDF Resource

The Prodigal Son

Luke 15 – The Prodigal Son

A couple of years ago when we were at an Infinitum Gathering and formulating our posture prayer. This incident in Luke 15 gave us the shape and focus for the Mission Posture. With hands facing forward we were saying to God that we were willing to engage and embrace the people, places and tasks that God had for us.

Unfollow Days

Days to turn off technology and pursue Jesus instead. Designate some times, days out perhaps longer to “turn off but tune in”. Allow space for God to speak to you during those “unplugged times”

1 John Daily Devotion

Focus on 1 John 2: 1-17 this month. Attempt to read this passage morning and night for 1 month. In the morning see it as a directional and positioning passage – posturing you towards love. In the evening see it as an “examen” – thanking God for how you’ve experienced his love and offering those times you felt disconnected from this truth.

Fight for Justice

On October 11 it is International Day of the Girl. You can find out more https://www.un.org/en/events/girlchild/. Why not consider finding a way to support, pray and work towards justice that is so badly needed for girls around the world this month. In your HUB, or with your friends and family discuss ways in which you could show practical levels of love

Family Discipleship

Infinitum has been learning from a number of sources about helping families find practices together that help them pursue discipleship together. Both Boundless Church in Vancouver and The Meeting House in Oakville, Toronto have been doing some amazing work in this area. Check out this resource.

The Creative Way Down

In your next HUB gathering, watch together this short video from Danielle Strickland and Aaron White introducing the Creative Way Down. Discuss together some of the ideas shared and whether it’s something you’d like to do together.

Questions

Jesus asked 307 questions, was asked 183, and answered 3. Questions are an important part of the discipleship journey, and that’s why questions form the basis of our HUBs. Use the link to check out our latest set of questions.

Jesus and Simon

Using this resource spend time reflecting on Jesus’ interaction with Simon through the lens of Surrender, Generosity and Mission.

Study OT Generosity

Use the latest resource to study in your Hub the story of David and Mephibosheth. Use the research prompts and questions to explore what generosity and grace means for you through this story.

Generous Jar

Create a daily habit of writing down one generous action or comment you’ve observed during the day. Either write it down on separate bits of paper and place in a jar to examine later in the month or Make a note on your phone or laptop. Review at the end of the month. What did you learn? What surprised you? What are you going to do differently now?

Change

Create an “end of day” daily habit of placing any loose change in a jar. Either do it personally or encourage other family members or work colleagues to join you at end of month total up what you have collected. Choose a person and or cause to give to – how did the jar shape your decisions or thoughts through the week

Follow this way!

Pursue a new, or renewed spiritual discipline for the month. Be it fasting, study, meditation, solitude or worship, try to incorporate a new aspect of following Jesus into your schedule. Evaluate how this helps you follow Jesus more closely, and in particular a closer commitment to surrender, generosity or mission

How are you following?

Use the resource – ‘How are you following’? To explore your discipleship in your HUB this month. There’s a helpful video and diagram to explore some of your recent experiences and put things in place for the weeks to come.

HUB Share

Discuss in your HUB an item that you would like to share with your fellow member(s) for a month. It might be a car, a tv, a book, a regular meal, or maybe a task! Take it in turns to plan together how sharing this time/activity would look over the coming months and then discuss after the 28 days its impact.

Chapter a Day

Both the book of Matthew and Acts have 28 chapters. Chose one of the books and read together in your HUB a chapter a day through February. You could use these simple questions to help your discussion. 1.What have I learnt for the first time by reading this passage 2.How does it change my understanding of God? 3.How does it help strengthen my commitment to surrender, generosity and mission?

This Time Next Year

Read in your HUB Genesis 18 v1-10.The promise of a son seemed impossible for Abraham and Sarah after 25 years, but God assured them that ‘this time next year’. Share in your HUB some of those hopes and prayers that you’ve been holding on to for many years and pray together that they may come to pass, by this time next year.

Book Share

Reflect back in your HUB on the most significant book or film you read/watched last year. Share how it demonstrated or led you to a deeper awareness of Jesus’ presence in your life. Pray together and choose someone to gift that book/film to with a note sharing your experiences.

The book before

As we approach Advent, many will be turning to the start of the gospels for readings and reflections in the coming weeks. In your HUB this month, try exploring together the last book of the Old Testament, Malachi. You might like to use this video from The Bible Project. What does this teach on Surrender, Generosity and Mission?

Proximity

Google Map a location within your own continent that you know is a risky or dangerous place to live – it might be through violence, war, famine or displacement. Use the google map tool to find out its distance from your house by car, public transport, and walking. Use this as a prayer tool this month and discuss with your HUB how this changes your relationship with the situation.

Images of Jesus

Spend time in your next HUB meeting discussing images of Jesus. You might want to use this resource or share images you’ve found online or over the years. How do these images challenge or shape your perception of Jesus?