Preparing the Vineyard
Yearly recommitment is a Church of the Saviour tradition. It creates a period of questioning, of pruning away what doesn’t work, and attending to what does. It makes space for stepping out of a mission group or stepping into deeper commitment to the community, for examining our level of giving — and receiving. Consideration of […]
Christ in Community – Sept. 11, 2020
“To say ‘yes’ to Christ is to say ‘yes’ to people. To know Christ as God is to be organically, integrally part of a community, and to be ultimately responsible to Christ is to be responsible to others in Christ’s Body. Together we show the world who Christ is, until the entire broken human race […]
Changing Ourselves Together – Sept. 10, 2020
“To the extent that a community has a continuing life together we are going to be challenged at the point of our illusions about the kind of people we are. This does not mean that we intentionally seek to break the images of others. The task is always to change ourselves—to deal with that in […]
Growing Up Spiritually – Sept. 8, 2020
“Granted, just as some biological families are healthier than others, so are some spiritual families. But the fact remains we must have some spiritual family if we are to grow up spiritually. We must have a context—or what Parker Palmer calls a ‘congruent community’—if we are to become who we were created to become. If […]