The Charcoal Fire

 

The Charcoal Fire:

a space to explore friendships and fear, why good friends are important, how it feels when our friends let us down, and what we do when we let our friends down …

and to learn about Peter who denied knowing his friend Jesus.

 

Luke 22.54-62

Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance. When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat among them. Then a servant-girl, seeing him in the firelight, stared at him and said, ‘This man also was with him.’ But he denied it, saying, ‘Woman, I do not know him.’ A little later someone else, on seeing him, said, ‘You also are one of them.’ But Peter said, ‘Man, I am not!’ Then about an hour later yet another kept insisting, ‘Surely this man also was with him; for he is a Galilean.’ But Peter said, ‘Man, I do not know what you are talking about!’ At that moment, while he was still speaking, the cock crowed. The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, ‘Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times.’ And he went out and wept bitterly.

 

What is your worst nightmare?

If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be?

What do you do when you are feeling down?

 

Questions taken from https://table-talk.org/friends/

 

This is a space for quiet reflection, perhaps on things that have gone wrong in your life.

You may like to stand at the fire to do this or simply sit around the edge of the space.

You don’t need to speak to anyone here. But there might be someone you need to go and talk with later.