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SESSION 1: Sorrow Shared
Opening Considerations:
❖ About minutes on spent remembering Jesus’ death and agony in worship services.
❖ About % of the Psalms are classified as songs of lament.
❖ Yet on average % of Western church hymns can be classified as laments.
❖ Around % of contemporary Christian music can be called songs of lament.
The unapologetic statement of Lamentations is that we must not avoid sorrow but instead, we must go through sorrow.
THREE LAYERS OF LAMENTATIONS:
❖ Traditionally, the author of Lamentations has been identified as the prophet
❖ Lamentations is part of the Megillot, meaning five scrolls.
❖ Lamentations is read in Jewish synagogue on the month and day remembering the
destruction of , which was destroyed around BC.
❖ The city was conquered by Babylon by a military tactic called a
❖ In the same way the Babylonian army broke through Jerusalem’s wall causing pain and
sorrow, Jeremiah invites us to walk through the destroyed city.
❖ The structure of Lamentations is a poetic device called an
i. Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5 contain 22 verses.
❖ Two reasons for this structure:
i. In the midst of the chaos, the poetry tries to bring peace and
ii. The poet demonstrates the intensity of the pain of the city.
❖ Lamentations is set up as a funeral dirge.
❖ Mourning in the ancient world was an invitation/ritual to bring comfort.
❖ Two ways to offer comfort in the ancient world:
i. To the problem causing the pain.
ii. To lament and with the person suffering.
Discussion Questions for Reflection:
become more like Jesus?
SESSION 1: Sorrow Shared
Opening Considerations:
❖ About minutes on spent remembering Jesus’ death and agony in worship services.
❖ About % of the Psalms are classified as songs of lament.
❖ Yet on average % of Western church hymns can be classified as laments.
❖ Around % of contemporary Christian music can be called songs of lament.
The unapologetic statement of Lamentations is that we must not avoid sorrow but instead, we must go through sorrow.
THREE LAYERS OF LAMENTATIONS:
❖ Traditionally, the author of Lamentations has been identified as the prophet
❖ Lamentations is part of the Megillot, meaning five scrolls.
❖ Lamentations is read in Jewish synagogue on the month and day remembering the
destruction of , which was destroyed around BC.
❖ The city was conquered by Babylon by a military tactic called a
❖ In the same way the Babylonian army broke through Jerusalem’s wall causing pain and
sorrow, Jeremiah invites us to walk through the destroyed city.
❖ The structure of Lamentations is a poetic device called an
i. Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5 contain 22 verses.
❖ Two reasons for this structure:
i. In the midst of the chaos, the poetry tries to bring peace and
ii. The poet demonstrates the intensity of the pain of the city.
❖ Lamentations is set up as a funeral dirge.
❖ Mourning in the ancient world was an invitation/ritual to bring comfort.
❖ Two ways to offer comfort in the ancient world:
i. To the problem causing the pain.
ii. To lament and with the person suffering.
Discussion Questions for Reflection:
become more like Jesus?
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