Origin

Repentance is a 180 degree turn.  Why is saying, "I'm sorry, I messed up" so difficult?  Why don't we want to repent?  What blessings are we missing because we will not bow?  Because we will not repent?  Because we will not say with true sorrow, "We are sorry?"  Jesus is the perfect sacrifice and the only way to God.  He paid a great price for our forgiveness and for our righteousness.  To access that repentance is required.  Daily, regular repentance of sin.  We've heard it said that we should stop repenting.  No - - not so.  Repentance is for our benefit and for our good.   

Join us for Season 2,  Episode 1 as we discuss the "elephants in the room" in light of original design.  This season on Origin pull a chair up to our table of fun conversation as we, ReGina Johnston, Jina McAfee and Kyli Rose talk about The Essentials.  You have just heard the two minute warning.  You have the ball, what is essential to finish the game well.  Why is love essential and how do we do it well?  

Join us at the table of Origin as we discuss our current struggle with racial reconciliation with Ladies in Leadership around the table and two guests, Joan Butler & Rosalind Booker.  It was an honor to close our discussion regarding Original Design and Women in Leadership this season with these two sister friends.  

Join us at the table of Origin as we discuss another "zinger" in scripture requiring us to dig deeper in order to understand the actual meaning.  Best practices for interpretation are  part of the discussion giving practical and accessible tools so that all readers can, with the help of multiple theologians and scripture verses, discern what scripture is saying.  

Join us at the table as we discuss the Apostle Paul's writings in the letters to the Corinthian church regarding women and the church.  Unpacking good practices for interpretation we will look beyond the black print on the page to Paul's practices,  seeking to find congruency between the two.

Join us as we discuss terms, "mutuality," "equality," "unity" and "intimacy."  What do these terms mean in relation to Original Design.  We live these terms most effectively when we remember to honor one another as one who belongs to God.  Jesus does not disqualify.  He came to qualify.  Christ is all about restoring what is broken.  Don't lose hope.

Jesus is our model, our example for how to live out the gospel. He IS the Gospel.  In New Testament scripture when Jesus walked on the earth, he would parallel his ministry to men and women.  He would heal a man and then turn and heal a woman.  He would share parables about a woman, and then about a man.  He gave illustrations that women of that day would identify with and then illustrations that men of that culture would understand.  He was inclusive.  He is inclusive.  His call for us to carry the gospel is mutual to both men and women.  Jesus brought a better way to live.  The hierarchical structures are man's design.  Jesus said, "The first shall be last."  He upended everything.

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Join us as we discuss the "elephant in the room" at the crossroads of current events and original design.  We answer life's big questions through a filter that there is an original design, a blueprint that brings clarity and purpose to life.  In this episode we, four decades of women, discuss:

• The results of the fall
• Patriarchy/hierarchy
• God is neither male nor female, but Spirit
• Women that God elevated to lead in the Old Testament
• What happens when women step up
• New Testament Greco-Roman cultural context
• Sad quotes from early philosophers and church fathers regarding women
• When the tide turned in history

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Episode 3:  More Than Boxes

Welcome to Origin where we look at current events through the filter of a pre-supposition that there is a plan A, an original plan, a blueprint that gives context and clarity when it comes to present-day “elephants in the room.”  We hope to discuss things among us, four decades of women,  that often are subject matters avoided even at holiday seasons with family.  We think it is going to be fun.  Maybe at times a little tense.  Not performed. But just a conversation among friends.

Why we gather:  Recently towards the end of last year we heard a woman, most revered by us, the ladies of this podcast told to “go home” when it came to ministry and leadership.  So, we wanted to have a genuine conversation about Women and Leadership, particularly in and through the local church.  We thought it would be good to mention briefly why this subject matter would bring us to the table of Origin.

·       To alleviate the frustration arising from the devaluing of Christ in people
·       To diminish the loss of voices and giftings at the table
·       To assure young women that they are vital to the Kingdom
·       To expose the disconnect between what we were made for and how we actually live
·       To answer our own questions:  Are we pleasing to the Lord?
·       To confirm the gifts and callings of God in fellow believers
·       To call to the silent voices to speak up, realizing that silence is saying something
·       To support one another more effectively in the God-endeavors of their lives
·       To expose the enemy of building one another up and to building the Kingdom of God

 Our premise:  A scriptural pre-supposition that there is an original design as an overview to answer every question.  Interpretation of scripture must fit within original design.

 Interpreting Scripture:
·       Prescriptive - relating to the imposition or enforcement of a rule or method
·       Descriptive - serving or seeking to describe
·       Equality, Mutuality, Unity, Intimacy 
·       Evaluate in terms of timeless truths, historic records, restricted regulations
·       Fit each verse into scriptural passage, each passage into the theme of its book,           each book into the culture and context of that audience,  the entire Bible into the context of Original Design
·       Welcome Holy Spirit in the journey 
·       Let the Bible read you
·       God is continually revealing Himself and His revelation will unfold throughout eternity.  His revelation will agree with His Word.

 Questions we are asking:  Are we married to our tradition?  Does our identity flow from our traditional beliefs?  Is our identity found in an eternally unfolding revelation of God?  Where is Life? Is God male or female?  Do we realize that Jesus used illustrations that include what we would consider to be masculine and femine?

 Scripture:  Genesis 1:1-3, Genesis 1: 27 & 28

 Sources:
Dictionary.com
The Blue Parakeet, Scot McKnight
God’s Women, Then & Now, Deborah M. Gill and Barbara Cavaness
Assemblies of God Position Papers/Women in Ministry
https://ag.org/Beliefs/Position-Papers/The-Role-of-Women-in-Ministry