Pentecost - Rev. Chris Currie | 5.19.24
The Spirit is given to begin the work of making God's future real in the present. ... Just as the resurrection of Jesus opened up the unexpected world of God's new creation, so the Spirit comes to us from that new world, the world waiting to be born, the world in which, according to the old prophets, peace and justice will flourish and the wolf and the lamb will lie down side by side. - N. T. Wright, Simply Christian
Shared Responsibility - Rev. Chris Currie | 5.12.24
"I believe that we need to rethink the nature and priority of the corporate body, the church. Throughout biblical history God has been gathering people together so that in them and through their life together he might work out his purposes for the world. It was never simply about God calling out an individual so that he or she might walk with God. No, when he called out individuals, it was so that each might play his or her part in the people of faith. We've gotten it backwards. We think that the church is there for us; in reality, we are there for the church." - Allen Mitsuo Wakabayashi, Kingdom Come