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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Church and mission 10/12-The holistic Jesus and his compartmenalized church

Jesus' church is much more holistic than our modern version of church today. It seems like the parts flowed into a seamless whole. The sacramental act of baptism was initiation into community but it was also a means of forgiveness. Forgiveness brokered outside the wealthy and religious power bases was a characteristic of this community and at the same time community was a form of mission as those on the outside saw the distinct lives of Jesus' followers and how they included everyone and they in turn wanted to follow him as well. In contrast the way most churches do it is to have separate departments for each area (liturgy/sacrament, community, mission, leadership). This actually makes things more complicated and spreads our time more thin. I wonder how we can make our church communities more holistic and not so compartmentalized.

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