fun nothing but nets promotion video
Ministry
why eikon?
tonight we started "eikon" an arts initiative within & outside our youth community. eikon, we hope, will become small communities of artisans that help us to practice a medium as well as frame our art as spiritual practice. tonight we started our photography community with around 20 youth & adults. i was pretty stoked for the number, but mostly i was stoked for the people that showed interest. i thought i’d share some of the why behind "eikon" since it was apparently asked about around the gbod.
To be an Eikon means, first of all, to be in union with God as Eikons; second, it means to be in communion with other Eikons; and third, it means to participate with God in his creating, his ruling, his speaking, his naming, his ordering, his variety and beauty, his location, his partnering, and his resting, and to oblige God in his obligating of us. Thus, an Eikon is God-oriented, self-oriented, other-oriented, and cosmos-oriented. To be an Eikon is to be a missional being – one designed to love God, self, and others and to represent God by participating in God’s rule in this world.
–a Community Called Atonement, by Scot McKnight
i thought this did a pretty good job of defining some group identity
i am pretty stoked to see what God does with this grouping
bad sheep
jim wallis on the daily show
jim wallis was on the daily show last night. as i am not the political talking Christian i would love to have a pocket sized jim wallis that i could pull out when, inevitably, people get into the religion / politics conversation.
a public worship fast
buddy dixon asks what would happen if we fasted from public worship.. would we give up on our obsession with numbers?
“You mean you go to church every Sunday?” The assumption being that
commitment to Christianity involves first, foremost and (this is my
thesis) simply the attendance of a new meeting – “church” on Sunday
morning.Here, “Christianity” is reduced to yet another
extra-curricular activity. It is like community league soccer,
gymnastics or guitar lessons.
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Think about the discipline of fasting. Classically, it involves giving
up something, good, healthy and indispensable for life – food – for a
certain amount of time in order to connect to God in a new way. A fast
is about abstaining from the necessary to reconnect to the eternal. A
fast shakes up the fast-er , often providing vital re-orientation and
spiritual clarity.