TEACHING
APRIL 23, 2023
10:30 AM (communion + kids!) FIVE SHIFTS OF TRUE REVIVAL + REFORMATION A reformation is a period of recalibration and course-correction. Any community around for as long as the church will experience inevitable drift over time. Yet the Spirit has worked again and again throughout history to draw the church back toward its center. Key moments come when particular ideas and practices are rethought and core truths are rediscovered. Rapid cultural and technological change, clergy scandals, church divisions, and political turmoil have resulted in a period where “deconstruction” is the buzzword. Many Christians find themselves rethinking their faith, and many outside the church dismiss Christianity as having nothing true or relevant left to say to the world. THIS SUNDAY: Shift 3.5: Reframing through Sacrificial Love Money, Sex, and Power touch all people, everywhere, for all time—every thinker and spiritual path wrestles with them. Richard Foster points out, "The ancient monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience were a direct response to the issues of money, sex, and power. Or think of the Puritans, who answered the question with their emphasis upon industry, faithfulness, and order (5)." There is a way that love, defined by Jesus, can help us live into these in life-giving ways. |