Books that build community

What’s on your summer reading list? Along with sunscreen and shades, what do you have packed in your beach bag? While the summer allows us to take a break, it can also provide the necessary time and space to strengthen areas of our faith, namely the practice of Christian community. An outgrowth of hospitality, Christian […]

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Race and reconciliation do not go together

“16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! […]

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Here is the church

“Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors And see all the people.” Life in community is not as simple and straightforward as this children’s rhyme would lead us to believe.  There is more to the church than the building and more to the building than its members.  Instead, we gather each […]

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The Jesus Community

“All who believed were together and had all things in common…” |Acts 2.44, NRSV These past few weeks, I, along with my Young Adult Sunday School class, have been in conversation about what Christian community looks like– not in appearance but application.  We don’t just want to talk about it; we want to experience it.  […]

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Segregated Sundays: Genuine Community

Cross- cultural, multicultural, multiethnic or intercultural, whichever is your church’s claim to inclusivity, please be sure that your invitation is sincere, that your congregation understands what these words means and what they mean for the congregation.  It’s about relationship and how we relate to persons across cultures not just during Sunday morning worship but throughout the week.  Because […]

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