PREPARING FOR THE SERMON
BINGO
July 7, 2024
One Another One Another (OAOA)
In this week’s bulletin, there is a OAOA BINGO card. The letters don’t really matter, but they help to convey the intention behind the card. During 2024 we have been focusing on one anothering one another. We have read (and hopefully at least tried to memorize) and sought to live different “one another” verses.
During July we thought it would be fun to match activities related to one anothering with intentional application. In standard BINGO, success is at best 80% fortune and 20% skill. In OAOA BINGO those numbers are opposite. There is a little bit of fortune involved, but it is almost all effort. Too many times Christians wait until their number is called (pun intended). God called us to one another one another. Doing so involves being aware of what we should do and seeking opportunities to do so.
On each card are prompts to create opportunities to OAOA. Some can be done quickly; others require consistent effort. Hopefully no path to a bingo can be done in five minutes. OAOA-ing is not a check box that we can do and get on with our lives. It, like all of Christianity, is meant to be a lifestyle, a worldview. For many of us there is nothing on the card we won’t check off just by living like we are accustomed to living because we have a OA mindset. But there is probably also at least a few things on each card that will stretch us and help us mature in our faith and faithfulness.
I hope you will enjoy this fun way of making sure we are intentional in OAOA-ing. Let’s be doers of the Word and not just hearers who think Scripture is a good idea.