Lesson: Worship as Habit
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Outcome: Understand how we are shaped as desiring beings and how we orient ourselves through our daily habits and worship to the God revealed in Jesus.  Take a liturgical audit of your life practices and create a Rule of Life.
Section I: Liturgical Audit
Eat this Text: John 1: 35-39
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A+35-39&version=NRSV
Hear Jesus invitation to you "What do you want?"  Write a brief prayer to God in answer
James K.A. Smith - "Taking a Liturgical Audit of Your Life"
Click the following link to watch in full screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bactDK2JV34
What are the most significant habits and practices that really shape your actions and attitudes – what you think and what you do?
What does your time look like?  What practices are you regularly immersed in each week?  How much time is spent doing different sorts of activities?
What do you think are the most important ritual focuses in your life?  And if you are honest with yourself, are these positive (embodying the kingdom) or negative (values and desires antithetical to the kingdom)?
What do you think are some of the most potent practices of our culture?
If you step back and reflect on them, are there some habits and practices that you might have originally thought were neutral or thin but on further reflection, you see them as thicker or more significant?
Is there any way you see worship as a thick habit?  How so?  How not?
If Christian worship is a thick practice, what do you think are its most significant competitors?
Eat this Text: John 21: 15-17
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+21%3A+15-17&version=NRSV
Hear Jesus' question to you: "Do you love me?"  How will you practice what you learned today?  Who will you "feed"?
Section II: Rule of Life
From Section 1, we undertook a liturgical audit of our lives to understand our love-shaping practices.  In Section 2, we will create a Rule of Life to orient our everyday practices to the worship of God, love of community and witness to the world.
Rule of Life: How to Abide.  John Mark Comer

Click on the link below for instructions on how to create a Rule of Life.  Reflect prayerfully on the questions pertaining to the 5 areas of life and enter your responses below.  Be as specific as possible regarding the practices you are committing to make a regular part of your life.
1. Devotional Practices: Mark 1:35 is one of many examples of Jesus prioritizing his UP relationship with God in solitude and prayer to guide and sustain him. What are your practices or intentions for communing with God in worship, prayer, abiding in His word, meditation, journaling, etc.?
2. Rest and Recreation: In observing Sabbath, we demonstrate our capacity to live under the reality of God’s gracious provision. This can be practiced in different ways daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually. In what ways will you rest, exercise, vacation and play?  
3. Family Relationships: Galatians 5:22-6:4 is one of many passages instructing Christian families how to relate to one another. What are your practices or intentions for building healthy relationships in your marriage and with your children?  How are you nurturing healthy children?      (OR) Healthy Singleness: Singleness is a gift from God and for His service (1 Cor. 7:7, 34). Yet friendship is essential for wholeness (Prov. 17:17). What are your practices or intentions to nurture healthy singleness?  
4. Team/Church Relationships: In 1 John 4:11, Christians are instructed to love one another because God has sacrificially loved us in Christ. Jesus stated plainly, “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another” (John 13:35). What are your intentions for growing in love towards your ministry partners and church?  
5. Ministry: Colossians 3:23 invites us to do our work with all our hearts as working for the Lord, not humans. As you consider your assignment description, what priorities rise to the surface? What aspects give you the most joy and satisfaction? What areas have you been inclined to let lag? What help might you need to engage your work more wholeheartedly?
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