We used this bible study at one of our gatherings, exploring imagery associated with kingship and what it means to 'belong to the truth'.
For groups
Read aloud the two Bible readings and the two reflections. You can use some of these questions to help your group reflect.
• What images and words do you associate with kingship and kingdom?
• What do you understand by the ‘everlasting dominion’ and the kingdom that is ‘not from this world’?
• How do you respond to images of Christ the King?
• What do you think it means to ‘belong to the truth’?
Old Testament reading
Daniel 7. 9 – 10, 13 – 14
Gospel reading
John 18. 33 – 37
A reflection on truth
“Truth evidenced in Jesus is not an idea, not a concept, not a formulation, not a fact. It is rather a way of being in the world in suffering and hope, so radical and so raw that we can scarcely entertain it”
- Walter Brueggemann
A reflection on Christ the King
A throne for Christ the King
on the pavements with the lonely and homeless
A court for our God
in the food queues of the down and outs
A crown for our saviour
in a twist of thorns shaped for mockery
A robe for our Lord
with a blanket wound round a quiet doorway sleeper
A banquet for our Redeemer
in a broken loaf shared at a broken table in a broken world
A jewelled goblet for the use of Christ
in a bowl of water for Christ to use washing the feet of others
A dull glory
a tarnished grandeur
but a reign of grace
This is our God
© Roddy Hamilton, Abbotsford
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