Sublime

Ministry is the deepest form of relationality because in ministry your person is shared in so deeply that the story that gives coherence to your being is completely claimed by the new story of the love, compassion, and mercy of the minister who shares your place.

When William Tyndale, one of England’s earliest Protestants, a disciple of Martin Luther, wrote about “the gospel,” he didn’t mean “the gospels”—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. He meant “the gospel” in the sense of the message: the good news that, because of Jesus’s death alone, your sins can be forgiven, and all you have to do is believe it, rather

The doctrine of the perspicuity of scripture says that scripture is clear enough to provide us with salvation and correct doctrine.

Matthew seems to be saying, then, that Jesus launched a mission that continues, in changed circumstances, through into the ongoing life of the church, even though it was rooted in the very specific and particular situation of his own day. We then find the mission “translated” into the postresurrection setting:

by affirming Augustine’s inwardness and the ability of each individual to read the Bible and stand before God’s justifying action themselves, Luther rejects that some people are spiritually dependent on what other people do. What the priest and pope do is not superior in kind to what farmers and housemaids do.

Fox Conner had long-recognized the importance of Allied “unity of action.”

While these charismatic evangelicals continued talking about a personal relationship with Jesus and seeking ecstatic experiences in worship, they nevertheless made faith formation about commitment to the idea of Jesus, stripping formation, ironically, of its transcendent encounter with divine action, making conversion an epistemological shift rathe

In 2013 Rick Falkvinge, the Pirates founder, released his book Swarmwise: the Tactical Manual to Changing the World (for free, via a Creative Commons license, part of the Open Source movement), which immediately acquired cult status among the ‘digerati’ of Europe.

Jesus is obedient because God’s being is found in God’s act and this God of Israel is a minister (the being of God is revealed as minister, as one who reaches out to embrace and be with humanity—“ministry” and “minister” throughout the rest of this project will mean this act of sharing in the life of another for the sake of love and communion). Jes