Sublime

The novelist Annie Dillard famously said, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”[10] But read through the lens of spiritual formation: “How we spend our days” doesn’t just determine what we do with our one, precious, fleeting life, but who we become.

Gil Rendle, a former senior consultant with the Alban Institute, has provided another helpful way for us to view our congregations. He looks at tenure of membership in the congregation and notes that some are long-tenured members (more than 20 years), some are mid-tenured (between 10 and 20 years), and others are short-tenured (less than 10 years).

Martin Luther

fact, if you listen to people tell their stories, most people’s lives are actually lived as a series of two-to-four-year seasons strung together.

kerygma (story, preaching), leitourgia (worship and sacrament), diakonia (mission and service), koinonia (intimate community), and paideia (formation

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Here is one who was so conditioned and organized within himself that he became a perfect instrument for the embodiment of a set of ideals—ideals of such dramatic potency that they were capable of changing the calendar, rechanneling the thought of the world, and placing a…

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