“The Great Commission as we’ve interpreted it for so long is now officially over.” TEXT: Micah 6:6-8 The following sermon was preached
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Evangelism in the Ecumenical Context At its root, the word ‘evangelism’, simply means spreading good news. For Christians, this usually means spreading the good news about Jesus Christ. In recent years, Google and other businesses have co-opted the word; for example, having employees called ‘Google evangelists’, whose job it is
MoreRuminations on Institutional Ecumenism Picture this: Gathered in the headquarters of a labor union are about 40 persons who want to make it easier for ex-felons to regain the vote as part of re-entering society. The participants’ average age is about 35. Almost half are ex-felons. The rest are from
MoreThe Kirk School What is this anomaly?! A church school that doesn’t teach doctrine? A neighborhood mission that does not proselytize the Christian faith? How does this satisfy Jesus’ command to “Go into all the world and preach…” Are we not missing our best opportunity to spread the gospel and
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By Russ Pierson View and Print as PDF. A generation ago, J.B. Phillips famously wrote a book that warned, “Your God is Too Small.” In an environmental age, it has become clear that, if Phillips’ indictment is correct, it may be because the Gospel we share has
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Unbound was introduced to college student Nina Voli through the United Methodist Church’s Caretakers of Creation, after she spent her past semester at the Creation Care Study Program in Belize, Central America. By Nina Voli View and Print as PDF. Often when I throw out the
More“The Great Commission as we’ve interpreted it for so long is now officially over.” TEXT: Micah 6:6-8 The following sermon was preached by Rev. Randy Bush on July 1, 2012 (General Assembly Sunday) at East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to a crowded sanctuary including many Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
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From False Dichotomies to Gospel Faithfulness Considering what it might take to merge the priorities of evangelism and social justice into one missional conviction that embodies them both. By Darrell Guder View and print as PDF Toward the end of the 1980s, the new, reunited Presbyterian Church
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Learning from Isaiah that we may neither privatize evangelism nor claim the autonomy of social action. By Walter Brueggemann View and print as PDF The overwhelming theological claim of the Bible in all its parts is that YHWH— creator of heaven and earth, savior and sovereign
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