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Month: April 2012

koinonia

koinonia

Koinonia.  Fellowship.  The characteristic of Christianity that marks true disciples as followers of the way – their love for Christ and for each other.  Fellowship is an term that has continued to need reshaping and reforming as I’ve tried to better understand what Church is all about.  My earliest recollections were definitely hearing this term in the context of church, most closely associated with a picnic after that followed or a potluck supper.  Then later it become more of a…

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The Mystery of the Cross

The Mystery of the Cross

Isaiah 52:13-53:12Colossians 1:19-23 The cross.  We see and recognize its power even printed as words on a page.  An instrument of death that mysterious contains beauty and life.   But how?  How can such a tortuous means of death bring life?  In asking this question, we are really asking, “How can God transform evil, rebellious people like you and I, and make us acceptable in His sight?”  The cross. You see, God reconciled sinners to Himself through the blood of the…

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