The Eucharist is the sacrament of unity. It makes us into one body. The apostle Paul writes, “As there is one loaf, so we, although there are many of us, are one single body, for we all share in the one loaf” (1 Corinthians 10:17).
The presence of Jesus among us and in the gifts of [...]
I identify my ecclesial context as the Anabaptist stream. However, several conversations have been a significant part of my ongoing theological process and formation. I am an associate pastor at Sunnyside Mennonite Church. Although we are a local expression of the Body of Christ, we are not independent from the Great Christian Tradition. We are [...]
Listen to me, all of you in far-off lands! The LORD called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name. Isaiah 49:1
I have been meditating on this verse as I prepare to preach Sunday. A recurring theme in the lectionary texts for Sunday is that of being named by God. [...]
Gracias - Marcos Witt
Please don’t read the last post as a prophetic judgement on passé, apostate forms of church. That is far too critical a view. I am amazed at the manifold (many-sided…diverse) wisdom that is expressed in the Body of Christ.
The views expressed in the last post is merely an expression of my own [...]
Willow Creek Community Church (Bill Hybels), recently conducted an internal qualitative study to evaluate the effectiveness of their ministry over the years. Check out this link–Willow Creek repents. It seems that after 30 years of working at church from an entrepreneurial paradigm–business model approach that views the parrishoner (seeker) as the customer and the church [...]
What would happen if alongside the Church a healthy crop of missional orders would sprout up? Organized blooms of spiritual direction and social action…
Would the Church feel threatened? What kind of ecclesiology allows for manifold expressions of worshipping/missional communities oriented around seeking the Kingdom of God? Would it be possible to lay down old structures–top down vision [...]
Yesterday was week one of two weeks of looking at Biblical interpretation and women in leadership at SMC. This is a six-week study we are doing during the Sunday School hour with all the adult classes combined. I gave out yellow and red cards to each person (soccer system)–told people to book me if I [...]
“I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a minister (diakonos) of the church at Cenchreae, so that you may welcome her in the Lord as is fitting for the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a benefactor of many and of myself as well.
Greet Prisca and [...]
Do not be filled with wine which leads to debauchery,
but be filled with the Spirit,
speaking to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and
making music in your heart to the Lord,
always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
submitting to one [...]
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