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Styling the Shepherd
Consider the first few chapters in Genesis. Think about it from a Hebrew mystical point of view. On the one hand, it’s plain that Creation is just a typical expression of God’s divine personality and character. We learn to think: … Continue reading
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Tagged communion, Creation, faithful stewards, Garden of Eden, Jesus Christ, miracles of Jesus, the Fall
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Refresh: Symbols and Rituals
On the one hand, the symbols are just that — symbols. They are not the thing itself. The key to mysticism is that we believe our current “reality” is just one huge deception. There are glimpses of ultimate reality and … Continue reading
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Tagged christian mysticism, communion, covenants, Jesus Christ, rituals, worship
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Mission Priorities
Our path is communion with Creation. We don’t have wisdom so much as we participate in divine wisdom. Sometimes we can communicate that wisdom to other people as a way of signalling that we can offer something worth their attention. … Continue reading
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Tagged communion, Creation, heart-led, military, mission, moral character, parable, personal narrative
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More on Meta-religion
What holds us together? We have no ideal. At least, we have nothing that most humans would recognize as an ideal, because our aim is otherworldly. Our union is communion on another plane. What holds us together is not in … Continue reading
We Want More
Let me attempt to draw a picture here. I very much want a community, a fellowship based on shared beliefs. Not conformity and uniformity, because a primary doctrine at work here is the necessity of seeking to share what can … Continue reading
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Tagged communion, covenant community of faith, evangelism, fellowship, scripture
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Psalm 133
Here we have a gem that most Westerners miss, not because they don’t read it, but because they don’t get the full depth of meaning. The quintessence of all the biblical covenants together is fellowship and communion on a very … Continue reading
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Tagged communion, compassion, fellowship, Psalms, sacrificial love
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Mystical Evangelism
A critical element in building a covenant community is ditching the goal-oriented thinking. Thinking in terms of a concrete goal and efficiency is what turned mainstream Christian religion into a huge conversion machine. Mainstream evangelism is little more than manipulation; … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Law, Biblical Mysticism, communion, Creation, evangelism, heart-led
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Can You See the Vision?
It’s a parallel society. Keep in mind that in most biblical usage, “the world” is the fallen human society without redemption. It’s the same Creation, but with a blinding veil of concrete reality, eating from the Forbidden Fruit of Knowledge … Continue reading
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Tagged communion, evangelism, fellowship, heart-led, virtual parish, western christianity
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Stop the Secularizing
By now you may have caught a whiff of something my recent posts have been reaching for: We live a life of worship. In that sense, life is ritual. Our human existence on this earth is rightly shaped by an … Continue reading
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Tagged communion, Creation, food, heart-led, physical fitness, secularism, worship
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Rapprochment
Let’s recall something very important: In Christ we live the paradox of having on the one hand a command to commune with others because it’s the nature of our communion with God. To be one with the Father is to … Continue reading
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Tagged church, communion, faith, fellowship, heart-led, intellect, moral consciousness, religion, theology
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