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Day: April 6, 2010

Back to basics to do a new thing

April 6, 2010 No Comments

[Rickel] tries to guide church members into a clear understanding of who they are and what they have to offer so they can communicate that passionately, especially since so much of how churches grow these days is by word-of-mouth.

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Church as institution: Good or Evil?

April 6, 2010 No Comments

I think one of the main themes to come out of Philip’s book is that very strong sense that the price you pay for transmitting a spiritual vision in institutional terms can be very high. And the questions sometimes is not so much about the nature of the vision as about the price you want to pay for sustaining it. ~Rowan Cantaur+

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Kipple drives out non-kipple

April 6, 2010 6 Comments

We are all constantly, it seems, creating, even exuding, disorder. Much of what the work of the spiritual life is about fighting these natural tendencies, it is very much a work against nature. When it comes to human life, alone or in community, kipple does indeed drive out non-kipple.

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New miracle of creation

April 6, 2010 No Comments

Resurrection of the Easter-kind is not regeneration, but re-creation. A new miracle of creation establishing Jesus physically as Jesus. The physical body of Jesus. Oh, the implausibility of it all! Could it be that Jesus’ body no longer belonged to this universe? That his physical cells had been translated into a type of body that would be fit—ready to live—in some other world? Some other universe? Another dimension? Visible and tactile in ours, but not of our world?

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