Fritz a wonderful lesson – and esp. reading has a flow I found encompassing. If only …….. yes we can…
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Tag: Loving Enemies as a Mark of the Church
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Lesson 17: Eating Together, part 2
Read MORE: Lesson 17: Eating Together, part 2After receiving the response to last week’s lesson, I decided to comment further on eating together as a mark of the church. It was an easy decision as I think it addresses one of the biggest spiritual problems in our…
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Lesson 16: Eating Together
Read MORE: Lesson 16: Eating TogetherAnother mark of the church evident in the Gospels is eating together. Luke points to that in Acts when he describes the early church worshipping at the temple on the Sabbath and sharing meals with each other in their homes…
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Lesson 15: Community Beyond Family
Read MORE: Lesson 15: Community Beyond FamilyIt is obvious one difference between Jesus’ community and the modern Church has to do with his band treating its members with the intimacy usually associated with the biological family. They shared their money and loved unconditionally as would be…
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Lesson 14: Love Enemies
Read MORE: Lesson 14: Love EnemiesMy intention was to draw up marks of a gospel community, intending to come up with characteristics of a community that followed Christ Jesus. It seemed simply common sense to begin with accounts of what Jesus himself identified as his…
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So forgiveness pre-requires understanding the mistakes of the past? here hear re this opposing this me-first, America-first, white-first, male-first approach>…
An extremely timely topic. Thanks, Fritz!