Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

welcome

  • In the space between last week and this week, we might lose contact with the context. Apostleship and division.

  • We like to be welcomed. But welcoming others takes effort. And between these two truths is what Jesus really wants.

  • People can really obsess about being welcomed. Often more than the welcoming they do. But maybe it is quite simple.

  • I never know how I’m supposed to feel today. We know how we’ll feel tomorrow and then the third day. We know how we will feel. How things will be tomorrow. We feel that confusion today. There’s an anticipation to this day we call Maundy Thursday. A day in which the big story’s climax is…

  • Church

    When I speak about “church” I speak about all the faithful Christians in the world trapped in the mind-numbing semantics of their denominational pigsties AND those constellations of congregations who refuse to be part of anything bigger or play denominational politics or play nicely with others AND those free agents running around all by themselves…