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Alone—when solitude and presence meet
At the Transfiguration, a few disciples see Moses and Elijah appear with Jesus. Then, when they blink, Jesus is alone.
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With Us Now
The point of this moment isn’t only the experience or the result. It’s the coming to engage with God’s great project together.
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Being Jesus
20. In taking on the form of Christ, we are making God present again and with the people. The Hands and Feet of Christ When I first realized the implications of Paul’s statement, it scared me. As metaphor, referring to the followers of Jesus as his hands and feet is pure beauty. Think about it! It’s…
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We Grow Love Together
19. And it is through these groupings we come to embody the love of Christ in ourselves. Our culture gives us a false impression that we can do life alone. And our churches give us the same false impression about life and much more. It often teaches us that love of God is all that matters…
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The God of Community
18. For God’s greatest activity is in the form of community, as small as twos and threes. I’m going to get right to the point with you. Our primary concern is off base and our solutions are bad. The church is getting it’s view of redemption wrong, which makes it impossible to fix our problem of…
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A Prison of Isolation
15. Nor is freedom from people anything but a prison of isolation. We sat in Joe’s arguing over greasy food in a debate over which is more important. Deep down, I knew Jen and I didn’t disagree. Not really. The argument wasn’t real. It was semantic. The heat generated from the friction of our altruism. The…
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God is active with us
8. When we feed the multitudes, welcome the stranger, and heal the sick, we are also with Jesus. There are essentially two ways Christians speak about the material of their faith. We can speak literally or metaphorically. And for those outside the faith, it can be really hard to tell the difference between the two. Just…
