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My new favorite picture of Eric ~ Our daughter Michaela took this pic for our new Website Silver City Mosaic
Flashback:
A look back to my first week of blogging: This was posted in early July:
Several months ago, my husband Eric began a series on the Justice of God. It was life transforming for me. It revived my passion when I began to relearn what the Church is called to do. As I have said, I sort of forgot. I thought we were here to convert the masses, correct their theology and have great bible studies... But then I realized something revolutionary---that the body of Christ is really here to do justly, love mercy and to walk humbly with God. WØW!!! life transforming. I thought to myself, "You mean that I'm supposed to hold the hands of dying children in Africa who have no human touch? I'm supposed to be involved in movements that release young children and women from forced prostitution. I'm supposed to be a part of "redemption"?? Not just big picture, heaven and hell redemption-- but every day life- place some food, any bit of food on a table for a struggling single mom- kind of redemption. And that was when my own redemption of my faith took place.
A faith where:
Redemption Reigns.
Hope Heals.
Love Lasts.
Revolutionary Raw Religion.
It doesn't get any better than this.
This week Eric and my little family had our first "Mosaic" service here in our home. A new movement for Grant County was birthed in our living room. Eric taught about the work of the priests in the old testament- The dirty, nasty, raw, bloody, work of a priest. You know the cut the head off of a dove, pour out the blood on another dove and let it go kind of work. Or the spill the guts of the bull on the alter, place blood on your earlobe, keep the fires burning night and day, atonement kind of work. Eric keeps asking what all the deep theological (actually even practical would help) meanings are. I can't answer that except I told him. That is a picture of what the work of the church are today. Our work will be dirty, messy, nasty, hard, long, and yet we are called to be ministers of Christ's redeeming atonement for others- for each other-for ourselves. That is revolutionary raw religion.
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Now, here we are 4 months later, and I am getting anxious for movement. We have continued to meet, and now we have 4 others joining us in our meetings, but I am haunted by words from Octavio who stated when he started his ministry it was difficult to get started because of people who were used to meetings rather than movement... I think I have become one of them kind of people. That terrifies me. I want to be about movement, about mission, about ministry. I don't want to be about meetings. Have any of you out there planted a new church? If so, how did you move from meetings to movement? I'd love to hear your story.
Krys |
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