FOUNDATION: FACT AND PRACTICE - Read and reflect during the first week

Sep 29, 2026

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A week-long spiritual foundation presents a relational view of God, the world, and the self: God creates people and invites shared life forever, and human love responds through praise, honor, and service. Creation is described as a context of gifts that helps believers know God more easily, while stewardship develops loving character. The text warns against abusing gifts or centering one’s life on them, and calls for balanced attachment in everyday choices about health, wealth, success, and failure. It guides retreatants to reread daily early in the retreat, using scripture to deepen understanding in Jesus’s imagery.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryReligion & Spirituality

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Reading Time3 min

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FOUNDATION: FACT AND PRACTICE

God creates and invites shared life

Gifts of creation and loving stewardship

Balance in everyday desires and choices

Reread during the first days of the retreat

FAQs

How should believers respond to God’s love?

Believers respond by shaping love through praise, honor, and service to the God of their life.

Why are created things called “gifts,” and what is their purpose?

All things are created through God’s love and become a context of gifts so people can know God more easily and return love more readily.

What happens when believers misuse creation or make it the center of life?

Abusing gifts or treating them as the center breaks the relationship with God and hinders growth as loving persons.

Sep 29, 2026

Upload by Sarah