One of the chief ways to share our faith today is sharing the story of God revealed to us in Scripture and how that story has shaped history, our community, and our personal story. Ultimately, conversion is not about mentally assenting to some truths, it's about trusting God and "switching stories." As we repent of the "American story," the "Hollywood story," or other stories that clamor for our trust, and instead trust in the gospel story, we start to live by a different script. - JR Woodward and Dan White, Jr., The Church as Movement
Seeking Justice & Reconciliation - Rev. Vito Baldini | 2.4.24
To work for healing, restorative justice - whether in individual relationships, in international relations, or anywhere in between - is a primary Christian calling. It determines one whole sphere of Christian behavior. Violence and personal vengeance are ruled out, as the New Testament makes abundantly clear. Every Christian is called to work, at every level of life, for a world in which reconciliation and restoration are put into practice, and so anticipate that day when God will indeed put everything to rights. - N.T. Wright, Simply Christian
Compassion & Mercy - Rev. Gino Curcuruto | 1.28.24
Through the cross of Christ we are drawn into the mystery of the Trinity. This is God's work on our behalf. We are made members of a kingdom governed by a politics of forgiveness and redemption. The world is offered an alternative unimaginable by our sin-determined fantasies. - Stanley Hauerwas, Cross-Shattered Christ