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For those of us burned by versions of Christianity which are about behavior management, culture wars, or bigger, better, brighter performances Trinity Sunday is an invitation to re-consider all of it. If we pay close attention, Matthew 28 and the Great Commission reveals a God who is love through and through and who is drawing all of the world into that love. This means the church is mission — the enactment of what all the whole world was made for.
For those of us burned by versions of Christianity which are about behavior management, culture wars, or bigger, better, brighter performances Trinity Sunday is an invitation to re-consider all of it. If we pay close attention, Matthew 28 and the Great Commission reveals a God who is love through and through and who is drawing all of the world into that love. This means the church is mission — the enactment of what all the whole world was made for.Prompts + PracticeJournaling Prompts:what do those around you think about Jesus, think about the church? How does your experience of following Jesus and church resonate or challenge those notions?How do you tend to introduce or describe your faith to those outside the church? What does that reveal about how you see yourself as a follower of Jesus?What does inviting others into God’s life stir in you? What might change if you saw this invitation as an extension of God’s invitation into love rather than a sales pitch about eternal damnation?Practice — Generous Invitation:This week consider who around you might need to know they are loved and welcomed by God. What would inviting them into worship look like? Would it be here with you? Perhaps another church or tradition?Consider inviting them to join you Sunday for worship. Or if not that for a meal as an extension of divine hospitality and care for them. Whatever you do, pray. Pray that they would come to hear that they are loved and welcomed into God’s very heart in Jesus Christ.
Journaling Prompts:
what do those around you think about Jesus, think about the church? How does your experience of following Jesus and church resonate or challenge those notions?
How do you tend to introduce or describe your faith to those outside the church? What does that reveal about how you see yourself as a follower of Jesus?
What does inviting others into God’s life stir in you? What might change if you saw this invitation as an extension of God’s invitation into love rather than a sales pitch about eternal damnation?
Practice — Generous Invitation:
This week consider who around you might need to know they are loved and welcomed by God. What would inviting them into worship look like? Would it be here with you? Perhaps another church or tradition?
Consider inviting them to join you Sunday for worship. Or if not that for a meal as an extension of divine hospitality and care for them. Whatever you do, pray. Pray that they would come to hear that they are loved and welcomed into God’s very heart in Jesus Christ.
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By Redemption HOUFor those of us burned by versions of Christianity which are about behavior management, culture wars, or bigger, better, brighter performances Trinity Sunday is an invitation to re-consider all of it. If we pay close attention, Matthew 28 and the Great Commission reveals a God who is love through and through and who is drawing all of the world into that love. This means the church is mission — the enactment of what all the whole world was made for.
For those of us burned by versions of Christianity which are about behavior management, culture wars, or bigger, better, brighter performances Trinity Sunday is an invitation to re-consider all of it. If we pay close attention, Matthew 28 and the Great Commission reveals a God who is love through and through and who is drawing all of the world into that love. This means the church is mission — the enactment of what all the whole world was made for.Prompts + PracticeJournaling Prompts:what do those around you think about Jesus, think about the church? How does your experience of following Jesus and church resonate or challenge those notions?How do you tend to introduce or describe your faith to those outside the church? What does that reveal about how you see yourself as a follower of Jesus?What does inviting others into God’s life stir in you? What might change if you saw this invitation as an extension of God’s invitation into love rather than a sales pitch about eternal damnation?Practice — Generous Invitation:This week consider who around you might need to know they are loved and welcomed by God. What would inviting them into worship look like? Would it be here with you? Perhaps another church or tradition?Consider inviting them to join you Sunday for worship. Or if not that for a meal as an extension of divine hospitality and care for them. Whatever you do, pray. Pray that they would come to hear that they are loved and welcomed into God’s very heart in Jesus Christ.
Journaling Prompts:
what do those around you think about Jesus, think about the church? How does your experience of following Jesus and church resonate or challenge those notions?
How do you tend to introduce or describe your faith to those outside the church? What does that reveal about how you see yourself as a follower of Jesus?
What does inviting others into God’s life stir in you? What might change if you saw this invitation as an extension of God’s invitation into love rather than a sales pitch about eternal damnation?
Practice — Generous Invitation:
This week consider who around you might need to know they are loved and welcomed by God. What would inviting them into worship look like? Would it be here with you? Perhaps another church or tradition?
Consider inviting them to join you Sunday for worship. Or if not that for a meal as an extension of divine hospitality and care for them. Whatever you do, pray. Pray that they would come to hear that they are loved and welcomed into God’s very heart in Jesus Christ.