Quote of the Week
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Mar 14, 2022: The Pattern of Spirituality
Because Jesus is our spirituality the supreme image of the spiritual life is baptism into his death and resurrection. This is the pattern of spirituality: death to all that is sin and resurrection to all that is life-giving. -Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 133.
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Mar 7, 2022: Handing Down Spirituality
What takes place in the community is the handing down of the tradition through a kind of cultural transmission. . . . The church needs to recognize the role of cultural transmission. The society of the church views life differently, plays by the rules of Jesus, and signifies the future by making it present. In this way the church transmits its values. It hands down spirituality through interaction with authentic lives marked by integrity, honesty, faithfulness, and servanthood. Spirituality is not only taught, it is also caught. -Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 133
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Feb 28, 2022: The Church and Spirituality
The church is the continuation of the incarnation, the place where the “other” is made “near”. . . . [The church] is the context in which our spirituality is formed. This is why the famous statement of Cyprian, “You cannot have God as your Father without the church as your mother,” has been affirmed throughout history. Our life “in” Christ is a process that takes place within his body in transactional relationship with each other. -Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 132
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Feb 21, 2022: Jesus Can and Has
Jesus is our spirituality. It is his life, death, and resurrection that make us acceptable to God. We cannot love God with our whole heart, soul, and mind, but Jesus can and has. We cannot love our neighbor as ourselves, but Jesus can and has. It is Jesus Christ, therefore, who presents us to the Father, and it is because of him and through him and in him that we are spiritual. Spirituality begins with simple yet profound trust in Jesus. -Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 132
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