'All Means All' Tagged Posts
Toward Sunday
All Means All will be our theme this week as we continue our worship series, This Christian Life. Our worship series is inspired by the story telling curated by Ira Glass on National Public Radio’s This American Life. Each week we’ll look at a theme related to the Christian life through the lens of several stories. The stories will vary each week. Some will be rooted in our own community’s story and some will come from people far away. Some will be…
Communion
Sometimes movies make things easier for me to understand. One of the best moments in my movie going life happened in the movie “Places in the heart”. This movie is set in the Depression in the 1930’s in the South. A widow (played by Sally Field) and 3 children struggle to make a living from their cotton field. The film has many complex relationships that reflect the cultural, racial and gender struggles of America. The Grace of God is made…
Open Communion
Theologian Jurgen Moltmann in his book The Church in the Power of the Spirit sets out the theological rationale for “open invitation” to the Lord’s Supper (pp. 244-246): “…It is the Lord’s supper, not something organized by a church or a denomination. The church owes its life to the Lord and its fellowship to his supper, not the other way around. Its invitation goes out to all whom he is sent to invite. If a church were to limit the…