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  Mark 2:09 pm on October 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  It is a family that believes 

  A Christian community is evangelized

  in order to evangelize.

  A light is lit

  in order to give light.

  A candle is not lit to be put under a bushel,

  said Christ.

  It is lit and put up on high

  in order to give light.

  That is what a true community is like.

  A community is a group of men and women

  who have found the truth in Christ and in his gospel,

  and who follow the truth

  and join together to follow it more strongly.

  It is not just an individual conversion.

  It is a family that believes,

  a group that accepts God.

  In the group, each one finds that the brother or sister is a source of strength

  and that in moments of weakness they help one another

  and, by loving one another and believing,

  they give light and example.

  The preacher no longer needs to preach,

  for they are Christians who preach by their own lives.

  —- Words from Archbishop Oscar Romero, October 29, 1978

  

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    Josh Frank 8:26 pm on October 5, 2009 Permalink

    AMEN!

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  Mark 6:48 am on August 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  For Which… 

  My friend recently wrote a fantastic paper on grace – grace given to us from God, and the grace we offer from God to others.  In short – there is a grace by which we are saved and a grace for which we are saved.  Much of the Church has experienced the insights on the grace by which we are saved through the Reformation – but we are only beginning to unpack what it means to live into the grace for which we are saved.  What significant grace do you have to offer a desperate world?

  Read these two quotes below from two radical Jesus followers (borrowed from the paper) and consider what grace may be hidden in you just waiting to save the world in your own small way:

  “Let it be clear to us in our Head the very source and spring from which grace pours forth through all his members in accord with the measure of each.”

  — Augustine

  “In elevating us, grace also heals us, for it corresponds to our nature’s deepest aspiration. God in giving us participation in the divine inner life gives us to ourselves and releases within us the authentic powers that make us who we are as humans. One is finally free to become one’s genuine self.”

  — Aquinas

  “Let there be clear to us in our Head the very source and spring from which grace pours forth through all his members in accord with the measure of each.” and Aquinas: “In elevating us, grace also heals us, for it corresponds to our nature’s deepest aspiration. God in giving us participation in the divine inner life gives us to ourselves and releases within us the authentic powers that make us who we are as humans. One is finally free to become one’s genuine self.”

  
   
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  Mark 7:02 am on June 19, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Tell an Alternative Story 

  Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step… If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.

  – Ivan Illich, Austrian Philosopher

  

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    millertalbot 9:07 am on June 19, 2009 Permalink

    any revolution that lacks a alternate story is not a revolution

    and our story, regardless of how different it is, is sterile if it doesn’t lead to revolution

    peace