Marks of a Unified Church

Byhenry February 21, 2012

Walter Brueggemann suggests how we might avoid getting tangled up on secondary issues:

(HT: Allan R. Bevere)

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From My Editing Work: Discipleship Is Costly and Liberating
Byhenry November 24, 2014
From Reframing a Relevant Faith, forthcoming by C. Drew Smith: When Jesus comes upon these fishermen they are doing what they normally do on any given day; they are fishing. Indeed, this was their life; this was their existence. Fishing was what was routine and comfortable for them. While their occupation as fishermen was hard…
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Denominationalism – The Disease
Byhenry August 17, 2008
Consider these situations: A Sunday School class for young adults is growing by leaps and bounds. Many young men and women who are not members of the church are showing up just for the class. The church leadership shuts the class down because it is not using denominationally approved curriculum. A speaker who is not…
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On Risk – Quote of the Day
Byhenry March 16, 2011
From Allan Bevere: … no human being is entitled to a risk free existence. The entire article is worth a read.
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Which Way do you Listen?
Byhenry September 19, 2009
Recently Dave Black made a comment regarding the way in which we hold certain correct doctrines (HT: Dave Black Online. I’m just going to quote one sentence here, which was as much as I could quote in a tweet: … sometimes even biblically correct positions can be reduced to a dogmatic narrowness, formalism, and fundamentalism….
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Eschatology: Isaiah – 1
Byhenry January 14, 2016
I’ve posted the event for my study on eschatology tonight. I’ll be looking at Isaiah for at least two sessions, the first focused on the servant passages as an exercise in interpretation, and the second on the language of the latter chapters and how it is incorporated into apocalyptic and in turn into our eschatology.
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Some Thoughts on Ecclesiology from Someone Utterly Unqualified
Byhenry November 17, 2014
Several things I’ve written lately lead to thoughts on ecclesiology, though that is hardly one of my subjects. People do sometimes make assumptions because I’m a member of a United Methodist congregation. So I’m going to make this personal, first saying why I am in a United Methodist congregation and second saying what I see…
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2 Comments

Bob MacDonald says:

February 21, 2012 at 8:26 pm

Brilliant last line! – Love it – thanks.

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1. Henry Neufeld says:
  
  February 22, 2012 at 9:23 am
  
  That’s a powerful message for 2:22! I really enjoyed it as well.
  
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