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Thickening Communities II How do we ‘thicken’ our communities? Basically the same way I think we solve everything: we eat together. We experience the deepest communion with God and with each other when we come to God’s table. We’re made to be companions, literal ‘sharers of bread,’ friends in modern parlance, as God the host… Continue reading Come to the Table
Last year I read and greatly benefited from Natalie Williams & Paul Brown’s book Invisible Divides. It explains the challenges of being working class in an English church—which at least among evangelicals are currently majority middle-classed—and outlines the ways that Pastors and others need to think differently in order to make multi-class churches. One of… Continue reading Embracing the Minority
God creates by dividing, that’s the pattern begun in Genesis 1. He continues to create that way today. I’ve written before on how the Lord makes order from chaos in the first Creation narrative, and how that work which is begun but not completed becomes our work. Adam was meant to create order in the… Continue reading Creation requires Division
Jesus came to give us life, and life to the full. Life that is abundant, excessive in quantity. We know the words of John chapter 10 well enough, but I think it’s difficult for us to picture what that means. I hear the phrase “life to the full,” and I inevitably picture someone into extreme… Continue reading Life to the Full
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