February 22, 2023 Ash Wednesday Worship for Cheney United Methodist Church

With this Ash Wednesday service, we begin a spiritual journey spanning 40 days, from Ash Wednesday until Holy Saturday before Resurrection Sunday. In the early days of the Church, the season of Lent was a time of preparation for new converts as they readied their hearts to enter into Christian Baptism on Easter Sunday. Since these new members were to be received into a living community of Faith, the entire community was called to prepare. Also, this was the time when those who had been separated from the Church because of explicit sin would prepare to rejoin the community of Faith.
This season we are using a Lenten Study called: “Seeking: Honest Questions for Deeper Faith.” For this Ash Wednesday service, the theme is “Seeking: Is this the fast I choose?”