how goes it
Amazing things happening...across many areas of life. In general, a sense of satisfaction and growth...God is working, He is changing me, it is exciting to see.Some good quotes from homework readings I've had this week:
As Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Orthodox Christians have long known, the liturgical seasons provide a structure for the continuing rehearsal of the primary stories of Christian community. Their rhythmic repetition over time regularly renews our consciousness of those stories at a time in history when we are bombarded with a host of competing stories for our loyalty. The liturgical seasons help us to remember who we are in an era of flux and change. They order the way we live together in relation to the flow of events that remind us of our relationship to the Christ-event. Ultimately they intensify our relationship to one another as we share together liturgical acts of remembering. – Charles Foster, Educating Congregations
The Kingdom of God is God's gift to us. Because of the saving action of God in Jesus Christ, Christians believe that the Kingdom is ensured and in a definitive sense has already come. Trusting in a God who saves, and convinced of God's faithfulness to God's promises, we are invited to live even now as a redeemed people. With confidence in God we can afford to live our lives with joy, with hope, with peace, with happiness, with all the best things for which the human heart longs and for which the Kingdom stands. We can enjoy God's creation, we can embrace and live life to the fullness of our human potential for it. The human state is a blessed and redeemed existence. - Thomas Groome, Christian Religious Education
The church is best understood as a creation of God, a community of corporate social agents called to bear witness individually and corporately in word and deed to God’s intention for human life, that is, to be a radical community for others, a countercultural community biased toward and acting with God on behalf of the oppressed, the hurt, the poor, the have-nots, the marginal people of the world. - John Westerhoff, Will our Children Have Faith?
posted by FaithChristine @ 08:08
3 Comments:
Thanks, Faith! I'm really looking forward to talking everything out with you. You were right. I feel ripped apart inside. Man.. this is hard! I'm so thankful I'll have you to talk to about it. I don't know how you did it without anyone at home who could understand.
I just thought I'd leave a comment and say hi! I saw your post on Meredith's site, and I thought it would be random if you were Faith Macguire (cause I knew you'd been to England), and your picture looked a little bit like Joy. Then I saw the pics of your nephews here, so that was kinda crazy!
I go to Calvary Baptist Church, where the Pendells and your parents attend. Dustin, Darren, and Zach are so cute!!
What are you reading Thomas Groome for? Just curious because I teach at Taylor University and require it for my Teaching and Learning Strategies course.
All the best,
andy
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