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Throughout volumes 1 and 2 I’ve claimed that Jesus Christ becomes present when we give and receive ministry person to person. Bonhoeffer can claim that Jesus Christ exists as church-community because the church-community is in the form of personhood, and Jesus Christ is present in and through personhood (this is deeply incarnational).
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
anam chara
Richard Rohr • Falling Upward
bottle. He works with people, allowing their desires to draw him into the core conversations of life.
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun • Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Transforming Resources)
With its dedicated volunteer culture, focus on inspiring traditional davening, high-level Torah study, and egalitarian, universal outlook, Kehilat Hadar attempts to live out a world of Empowered Judaism.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Our gatherings of believers grow the church; scattered servants change the community.
Alan Scott • Scattered Servants: Unleashing the Church to Bring Life to the City
As agents of shalom, we are cultivators and creators of what is good, true, and beautiful. We experience joy in the midst of suffering, hope in the face of affliction, and peace in the shelter of the Almighty.
Paul M. Gould • Cultural Apologetics
When a congregation’s identity is in its resources, it is on an accelerating pace that alienates it from the world, making it excarnate in thought and practice.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
A congregation becomes depressed when its identity continues to rest on its resources instead of its relationships.