A lot of people say churches’ only proper purview is voluntary, charitable work. But why should social activism stop at the church door and the volunteers’ hands? If Christ claims every square inch of life, why shouldn’t Jesus’ followers be as concerned with how the government spends money as with their neighbors who don’t have enough?
More and more it seems like you’re just going through the motions. You’re doing what you know how to do. You’re doing what has always worked before. But now, it just doesn’t seem to be working. And you wonder what’s wrong—what’s wrong with the church, with the people, with the leaders, with yourself.
We ought be regularly consulting in this way in advance of major votes at all levels of the Church. This event ought not be exceptional. The upside is so great that the expense is easily worth it.
Canterbury and a team of four volunteers use Google Wave to communicate about what needs they will accept or deny. Once a need is determined, a member of the team is assigned as case manager and writes a blurb about the story. Canterbury blasts out the write-up on Twitter and Facebook with a link back to the full story on Beremedy’s site.
“After years of research specializing in the history and religion of Israel … I have come to a colorful and what could seem, to some, uncomfortable conclusion that God had a wife.”
Understanding what a bishop is meant to be and do has become complicated. So many expectations are now heaped on the role: What person could possibly fulfill the wish list of ideal skills in our “profiles?” I can’t help shaking my head over it all.
Cranmer was not only a cautious man but a peaceable man. Faced with the necessity of making great changes, he followed Luther in not making greater ones than he could help; moreover, he made them by stages, not all at once. Thus, the 1552 Communion service was the fourth stage in a process which began with the first introduction of English into the Latin Mass in 1547.