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“Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!” - Fr. Daniel Berrigan, Sacred Fire, pg. 107
Be a Mentor — Join the Potluck
We often think that it’s more important to believe the right things or to live a certain kind of life. While our beliefs and actions are important, let us not forget that it’s God who makes saints, not us. We can read, study, and take on asthetical practices all we want, but until we lay down control over our lives we are no closer to God’s kingdom than before. God commands us to love our neighbors because it’s there that he molds us into saints.
So, think about it. If you relinquish two hours on a Wednesday evening to Jesus, I promise he will meet you there and transform your life. Come as you are. Put your butt in a seat. Where two or three are gathered, Christ is there, and he transforms.
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6th Sunday after Trinity: A Homly on Forgiveness
A brief homily on forgiveness. — 6th Sunday after Trinity; Romans 6:3-11 & Matthew 5:20-26
O God, who hast prepared for them that love thee such good things as pass man’s understanding: Pour into our hearts such love toward thee, that we, loving thee above all things, may obtain thy promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Joining us on Wednesday evenings is the best way you can build the Kingdom in East Nashville.
The Potluck starts at 5:30p and we’re done by around 7:15p. (So you’ve still got time to put kids in bed, wrap up your day, go to the gym, whatever.)
To join us on Wednesdays you don’t have to be Anglican, don’t have to have handyman-type skills, and you don’t have to commit to joining us on Saturday mornings.
More than protests, more than social media posts, more than yard signs, and more than who you vote for; committing two-hours of your time to God’s Kingdom each week will open space for God to transform your life and the lives of others.
E-mail Michael+ if you think you’re ready to deepen your relationship with God and neighbor.
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Did you know?
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“Our culture has trained us regarding not only what to do with money but also how to view the rest of creation as a set of commodities to be used for narrow economic goals. But economic practices that reduce the world to a set of commodities to be used and discarded are in conflict with God’s delight in the goodness of creation for its own sake. Once again, God’s solution is not to get rid of humanity. Rather God intends to restore us as ambassadors of his loving rule.” Practicing the King’s Economy, pg. 219
We can be employed in the world without losing hope. Instead of being beaten down by co-workers and bosses, we can take up our crosses as ambassadors of God’s New Creation that is, even now, breaking into the world.
