Living into Lent
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The Lenten journey is a shared journeyChristians join with others along the way of faith, following Jesus and seeking to live out the will and purpose of God.Living into Lent,written by noted theologian, educator, and author Donald K. McKim, sets aside time during the Lenten season for readers to reflect on their Christian identities, listen to Gods Word and will, and engage in practices that deepen the Christian experience through discipleship.
Whether used for congregational study or personal reflection, each reading features Scripture, devotion, theological quote, response, and prayer. Theological quotes, drawn from the history of the Reformed church, will help readers better understand Gods Word and its implications for the Lenten journey. Readings are enhanced by a seven-session study guide and questions for conversation.
Donald K. McKim
Donald K. McKim served as executive editor for Westminster John Knox Press, as academic dean and professor of theology at Memphis Theological Seminary, and as professor of theology at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books.
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Living into Lent - Donald K. McKim
Living into Lent
Donald K. McKim
© 2013 Witherspoon Press
Published in 2020 by Westminster John Knox Press
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Names: McKim, Donald K., author.
Title: Living into Lent / Donald K. McKim.
Description: First. | Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, 2020. | Originally published : Louisville, Kentucky : Witherspoon Press, ©2013. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: The Lenten journey is a shared journey-Christians join with others along the way of faith, following Jesus and seeking to live out the will and purpose of God. Living into Lent, written by noted theologian, educator, and author Donald K. McKim, sets aside time during the Lenten season for readers to reflect on their Christian identities, listen to God’s Word and will, and engage in practices that deepen the Christian experience through discipleship. Whether used for congregational study or personal reflection, each reading features Scripture, devotion, theological quote, response, and prayer. Theological quotes, drawn from the history of the Reformed church, will help readers better understand God’s Word and its implications for the Lenten journey. Readings are enhanced by a seven-session study guide and questions for conversation
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A Lenten Journey
Ways to Use This Book
Sessions for Group Study
Notes on Quotes
Endnotes
A Lenten Journey
This book is written as a resource for those who want to focus on Christian living and reflection during the season of Lent.
Lent is the forty-day period in the Christian year that begins with Ash Wednesday and extends to Holy Saturday, the day of the Great Vigil of Easter, which is the day before Easter Sunday. Lent is comprised of weekdays, with the Sundays in Lent being specially marked. Thus, the forty days begin with the four weekdays during the week of Ash Wednesday, and continue through six weeks of six days each, making the forty days of Lent. Devotions for the Sundays in Lent are included in this book as well.
Lent has always been a time of special devotion for Christians. It is a time for reflecting on our Christian lives, listening to God’s word and will for us, and engaging in practices that can deepen our Christian experience. The meditations that follow seek to honor these impulses and provide ways of reflecting on dimensions of Christian faith that can be meaningful and significant for us.
These devotions can be used privately or in a group setting. We Christians do not live out our Christian walk by ourselves. We do so in the company of the committed, the church. We are joined to Jesus Christ by faith in and through the church. God calls and works through people in this world; and the church is the people of God who are sent by God in mission and ministry. The personal dimensions of our faith come to us in the midst of those sisters and brothers in Christ who share common faith and with whom we share our commitments to love, justice, and peace in the Christian community. What is personal in these devotions is also corporate. What is true for us in our own Christian experience resonates with others and is lived out by others as well. Therefore, our Lenten journey is very much a shared journey. We join others along the way of faith, following Jesus, and seeking to live out the will and purposes of God for our lives.
Ways to Use This Book
This book provides devotions to be used during the period of Lent. The book can be used in different ways.
Each devotion features a Scripture passage, a devotion title, a biblical text for the devotion drawn from the Scripture passage, a theological quote, a devotional essay, an Action Step, and a prayer. The theological quotations are drawn from the history of the church and are used to help us better understand the Scripture text and its implications for life. The quotes do not take the place of the Scripture; they help open its meaning so the Word of God can reach us and move us.
Each of the seven weekly sections has a theme: following Jesus, meditating, praying, loving, thanking, enacting, and gathering at the cross. All of these themes, of course, are intermixed in the lives we live. But in Lent we can focus on aspects of our Christian life in a more concentrated way. Each theme focuses on a dimension of our Lenten journey with appropriate devotions.
Readers can use the book in one of two ways:
1. Reading the devotions chronologically, beginning with Ash Wednesday and finishing on Holy Saturday. This enables a concentration on the theme of each week.
2. Reading a devotion from a different segment of the book on the different days of a week throughout each week in Lent. This practice can begin during the First Week in Lent and follow through Holy Week. This enables one to experience the various themes throughout the course of each week.
Either approach can be used for individual reading or for group use of this book.
The seven study sessions are designed for groups who wish to do further reflections on the devotions.
I am grateful to be able to offer Living into Lent to the church.
This project is published by CMP of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and is written from my context as a Reformed theologian in the Presbyterian tradition. But the themes of Lent go beyond any single, denominational tradition. So this is a book for the ecumenical church and for all Christian believers who want to deepen their devotional lives during Lent.
One of my passions is to retrieve and try to revitalize the Christian theological tradition and to communicate insights from the great theologians of the past into