Logopraxis Life Groups: Experiencing the Lord in Our Midst

The structure of the Logopraxis Life Group meeting is based on a series of rounds designed to allow for only one person to speak at any given time without interruption from others. This structure is designed to promote a way of being with others that places people’s experience of the Word working in their life at the centre of their interactions within the group.  From its inception, Logopraxis has been an experiment in HOW TO BE, with the Word, and with others through a shared experience of the Word. It is the practice of the Word that brings everything into connection with everything else. The Lord, in the Gospels, declared that, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.” Matt. 18:20. By the Lord’s name is meant the Word, for the Lord is the Word (AC 5502; Jn 1:1). The design of the Logopraxis meeting, through its use of the round, looks to support the Lord being made visible in our midst through providing just enough structure for each member of a group to share their experience of the Word working in their life.

It is this lived experience of the Word, when shared with others, that serves as the soul or life of the group when the group is seen as a collective person. As each individual brings the gift of their life with the Word and places it upon the altar of receptive hearts it is received by the Lord within each and every member of the group, who, through apportioning to each according to their need and capacity to receive, is made known in their midst.

Maintaining a focus on only sharing our direct experience of the Word working in our life is vital to this unfolding of the Lord in our midst. It is vital that people’s sharing remains experiential and doesn’t cross over into intellectual speculation or theoretical discussion about doctrinal matters that sit outside their direct experience of the Text. The use of rounds is helpful in this regard for it limits the tendency to engage in discussion and crosstalk and therefore helps maintain the integrity of Logopraxis where the focus is on building a sense of connection with the Word and others based solely on sharing the direct experience of the Word working within the mind.

It needs to be remembered that what a person shares out of their experience of working with the Text is what the Lord has given them for the group. This gift stands as it is given, as a gift from the Lord for the group. It is not open to being questioned and any impulse to get the person offering the gift to expand or clarify on what they have shared should ideally be avoided.

 

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