Showing posts with label sons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sons. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Relational Church

I received this article recently from Mark Burlinson at Shiloh Place Ministries

Recently the leader of a network of churches asked me "what does a church look like when it is founded completely on the Father's love?" As I considered my answers to this question I realized how different the church looks when agape love is the foundation. The reason for this is that God's love is primarily expressed in the Kingdom of God; the Church is the community of the citizens of the Kingdom, not just a gathering of disciples in a locality. The Kingdom creates the Church, local churches are facets of Kingdom Community, and because God is love, the Kingdom of God is the Kingdom of Love. So what does an agape church look like?

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

The Church and the Four Legged Duck

Researchers gave a woman suffering semantic dementia- a form of dementia which causes people to confuse categories of things- a picture of a duck and asked her to copy it. The woman, who had been a talented artist, produced a good quality reproduction. They took the picture away and talked about other things for a while. After a few minutes they asked her to draw the picture from memory.

The result was amazing ...