This Sunday, the sermon in the Sanctuary service (actually, in the Social Hall this week) is a series of conversations with some of the people we commissioned to participate in Triennium, General Assembly, Mt. Outreach, and the Africa mission trip. This follows the model Jesus used with his disciples when he sent them out into the towns, and then they gathered again to tell about what they had encountered in the towns (Luke 9:10; Luke 10:17). That pattern becomes an important model for us. We see where we need to connect in the world; go out into the world; return to share how we connected. The cycle repeats itself.
I am not sure what I will be preaching in the chapel service, but it will grow out of this idea of connecting as well.
As I look to the fall, I am preaching a series (beginning 9/19) on "being the Church in the 21st Century." I would be very interested in hearing what you think are the challenges and opportunities the church has as we live out our calling in the 21st century.
Peace,
Richard
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One challenge is determining whether the liberal view, the conservative view, or somewhere between is what God wants us to act on and once we "determine" God's views on several items, which one or ones are we, as a church or individuals, going to follow-thru on.
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