CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER

Every Tuesdays 12:15 – 1:15   Location: Chapel
Space is provided for a self-guided contemplative prayer practice

          The Servant Leadership School of Lexington is centered in the belief that we are living in a time of great opportunity and change.  We seek to be an ecumenical center where people of diverse backgrounds can come together in community to explore God’s dream for a transformed world.  

           The most pressing need of our time, the need for compassionate, spiritually-grounded leadership, requires time and space to develop.  Our goal is to provide opportunities to nurture the qualities that will allow us to participate in a journey which can enable us to love deeply, embrace suffering, share power, and claim our identity as beloved children of God.  

           Bennett Sims, among other prophetic voices, suggests that we are currently living on a “hinge of history.”  In our Servant Leadership classes, we learn to recognize the two distinct and fundamentally different world views presented biblically as the movement out of the “Domination System” of Egypt or Empire into Jesus’ alternative which he called the “Kingdom of God.”  This core biblical narrative, the movement from bondage to freedom, is a shift from the “voice of fear” to the “voice of hope.”

           Using the philosophy of the Church of the Savior in Washington, D. C., we explore the difficulties involved in creating loving and just communities and institutions where we are—and why it’s worth the effort.  In affiliation with the Servant Leadership School of Greensboro, we explore both an inward journey of personal transformation and an outward journey to discern our own unique “call” and to express this in some form of life-giving service in the world in which we live.