Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness

community. The church is the only collective in society that exists solely for personhood itself (theologically, it has no other purpose).6

The red thread that is both the center of and the impetus to testify to Paul’s story is the experience of the ministerial being of Jesus. The plot and purpose of the story is to reveal the divine hypostasis encountering our own hypostasis.

So the household of ministry is the place of story, meaning it has its center in the practice of testimony.

Whenever and wherever the church spots hypostatic sharing (any occurrence of ministry), it should point in appreciative witness and proclaim the action of God. In this witness, the church asserts that the closed spin of Secular 3’s immanent frame cannot be all there is. Secular 3 has no answer for the action of ministry that comes even beyond our c

the church can take on the dispositions of gratitude, giftedness, and rest because it is a community of persons.

The distinction of the church is that it has no other purpose outside the hypostatic grounding of ministry itself.

The household of ministry will raise its voice when those in the world are kept from experiencing rest and peace. It is not ideology that should motivate this household of ministry but the spotting of inhumanity, seen concretely as a person’s inability to discover, in rest, his or her humanity.

Rest

worship. It is within this dynamic of receiving ministry and responding in grateful worship that we discover that our being is a gift to God, that we as a household are entirely a gift. But this gift, again, is not talent. The church is full not of talented people but of gifted people. We are the people who have received the gift of God’s ministry