Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
This community is living a good life (it is a life-community), not because it has a storehouse of resources through speed and innovation but because it has the resonance of shared personhood.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
One of the many reasons my wife and I want to plant a church is because it is the very place to foster such virtues and practices! The church gathers to announce that even in the midst of feeling disoriented, demotivated, discouraged, and disembodied, God has not abandoned us.
In a season that is marked by so much death and distance, we confess our
christianitytoday.com • The Rise of the ‘Umms’
practices,” not because this is something we accomplish, but because these practices are the “habitations of the Spirit.”7 The practices of prayer and song, preaching and offering, baptism and Communion, are the canoes and boats and helicopters that God graciously sends our way. He meets us where we are, as creatures of habit who are shaped by prac
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