CTK Anacortes

What role does Scripture have in our lives as apprentices of Jesus? The library we call “the Bible” can connect us to God and form us into people of love, but distraction, hurry, lingering mental maps from our family of origin and other influences can hinder our experience with these ancient texts.

This week we explore one of the most crucial aspects of being a disciple of Jesus: the role of the mind in the active, ongoing process of transformation; what it looks like and how we are called to partner with the Spirit of Christ to experience it.

This week Paul deepens our understanding of how the unique unity of the Spirit-filled community depends on the five-fold ministry of gift-people God gives the Church, so that the conditions for maturing from infants into healthy individuals persists and the new-community of God is realized.

This week we discover how to slow down and live out of creative love—to safeguard and grow a resilient, peaceful, and unified community—that finds its source in the loving unity of the Father, Son and Spirit.

Today we join Paul in prayer; discovering how the Spirit empowers us to cultivate lives of continual prayer, alive and attentive to the intimate presence of Christ, so that we might experience more and more the boundless depths of his love, becoming people who love like he does.

Today we reflect on the three-fold movement of faith in Ephesians 1-3: understanding God’s identity, our own, and the invitation to participation in a community on mission.

Today we explore Paul’s journey of transformation, discovering how the grace and power of God reframes suffering and catalyzes us to join God in the work of the Kingdom: creating a new humanity to the praise of his glory and the healing of all things.

Today we explore the power of God’s grace: where it places us, how it saves us, and what unique identity and destiny it calls us into.

Jesus not only restored our relationship with God but has made all people, both Jews and gentiles, a new humanity, one family, a holy temple, joined together in Christ.