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Third Way Believing

Do you believe in God? Maybe you’ve got a resounding “Yes!” or “No!” to that question, but more and more people report that their answer doesn’t quite fit in either category. If you are one of those people it probably doesn’t mean that you ‘sort of believe’ or ‘half-way believe’. It probably means that there is a better question, a Third Way to look at this topic that is more complex than a check mark in Box A or Box B shows. Let’s take a look at what a Third Way approach to believing looks like!
Find the outline to go along with Chris Lillehei's message on page 2 of the Sunday Paper and other resources like discussion guides at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers. Also watch for our regular "Leftovers" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
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Leftovers: Third Way & Traffic Circles

There is no doubt that the Third Way is more important and more complicated than most of us think. After the message on April 8 we got some great feedback from folks that got us talking. So Melissa and Greg decided to dig in deeper to this Third Way thinking. 

Third Way Being

You’ve been there… you know, that place where you are sure you were right, dug your heels in, stood your ground, maybe even belittled the other side. And... you were going nowhere. Stuck. What is so great about being right AND stuck? There must be something because we spend a lot of time that way. There is an option, however. It isn’t just another position, but a different way of being. A Third Way.
Find the outline to go along with Greg's message on page 2 of the Sunday Paper and other resources like discussion guides at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers. Also watch for our regular "Leftovers" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
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April Fools!

It couldn’t be more perfect for an irreverent church like Jacob’s Well than to have Easter fall on April Fools' Day. Miss Manners says to ignore April Fools', it’s not holy like Easter. But our instincts run a different direction. Sometimes truth is found in funny places and we think this is one of them. Enjoy! 
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Thoughts and Prayers: Entering the Space

If you could talk naturally to anyone, wouldn’t it be someone who knows you inside and out? And whatever God is, wouldn’t God know you that way more than anyone or anything else? Yet we think talking to God is hard, it has to be done a certain way, it can only be about certain things, or that we aren’t good enough at it. Does that make sense? What if…we saw prayer as a space that we could enter more fully, unfiltered, more ourselves than anywhere else?
Find the outline to go along with Greg's message on page 2 of the Sunday Paper and other resources like discussion guides at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers. Also watch for our regular "Leftovers" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
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Thoughts and Prayers: Let Us Pray?

So, let us pray. What do you think? It’s not hard to conjure up uncomfortable images of people “praying” together that, at best, feel forced and hollow and worse, hurtful and manipulative. But lots of us have had deeply meaningful times of prayer with others.  What if prayer is less a thing we do and more a space we enter into to discover something new?
Find the outline to go along with Chris' message on page 2 of the Sunday Paper and other resources like discussion guides at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers. Also watch for our regular "Leftovers" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
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Thoughts and Prayers: Wishing on a Star

Can prayer actually change anything? Or does prayer just make us feel better after we say amen? The answer, of course, is more complicated than yes or no. We will be focusing on the role listening has in prayer, and the ways that prayer changes us, and makes us go out to make our world more whole. I'll be praying you join us.
Find the outline to go along with Paul's message on page 2 of the Sunday Paper and other resources like discussion guides at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers. Also watch for our regular "Leftovers" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
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Thoughts and Prayers: The Vending Machine

The phrase ‘thoughts and prayers’ has become shorthand for, "I care, but not enough to change anything." It's become a stand-in for taking action. What’s the point of prayer then? Can’t we just act in the world and not deal with this whole prayer thing? Well. . . no. Prayer is an essential part of weaving the "ROPE," even if it is weird. 
Find the outline to go along with Paul's message on page 2 of the Sunday Paper and other resources like discussion guides at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers. Also watch for our regular "Leftovers" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Jacob's Well as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at jacobs-well.net/give. Thank you!