"Godspeed: The Pace of Being Known" Film

This morning, we are taking a break from our in-person teachings to watch the short (35min) documentary film Godspeed: The Pace of Being Known. “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” 1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV)

If you missed the screening in the theatre on Sunday or would like to see it again, please find the film here.

Home Church Questions:

1. What stood out to you from the film?

2. Are there contexts where you don’t want to be known? Why is that?

3. Read Jeremiah 6:16-19 (preferably in multiple translations). What stands out to you from this passage?

4. Alan Torrence had an a-ha moment when he realized the scale of Jesus’s life and ministry. Why does it matter that Christ’s life and ministry was embodied?

5. The people in these villages know one another and know their family history and others’ family histories from memory. This is not typically our experience here in more densely populated areas with lots of movement and migration. How does the way of life represented in the film shed light on how the gospels were written and passed down?

6. What is the value of rootedness and stability?

7. “I wasn’t there to give people the good news, I was there to be a part of their life.” What does that mean?

8. What is the value of travelling at 3 m/h (4.8 km/h)? Why might we find slowing down frustrating? 

9. In the film, we’re told that if we want to walk like Jesus, we have to slow down. What does that mean to you? Christian thinker John Mark Comer urges the “ruthless elimination of hurry”. How might that apply here?

10. Do you find any inspiration in this film for us as a church community? How can we apply the principles of this film here at The Harbour?

11. Pray with and for one another, our church community, and our world.

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