Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 19 July.

We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible readings for 19 July available on the Richmond Uniting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, our seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to engage in contemplative Christian worship. We explore Psalm 139.1-14, 23-24 through the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, sacred reading.  We also discuss how we do not to come to the bible with a neutral lens – instead we come to the bible already shaped by our experiences and what we have been taught about God – and this influences how we actually hear sacred text.