TheSacredCommons

A budding, convergent community of Youngstown, Ohio that seeks the accumulated wisdom of the Body of Christ.

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

You don't need a hashtag and a platform to change the world. You need a neighborhood and a little bit of faithfulness.

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

How evangelical it would be if we could say with all truth: we too are poor, because only in this way will we truly be able to recognize them, to make them part of our lives and an instrument of our salvation. https://t.co/cvtlcuWNgb

[kennethtanner @kennethtanner]

Jesus curses only a fig tree. In Genesis 3, fig leaves are a sign of our ancestors’ shame, of a false perception that all differences—uncreated & created, heaven & earth, male & female—were now divisions, instead of inherent unities. Jesus curses our shame & our binary vision.

[kennethtanner @kennethtanner]

God descends to became human, God ascends to remain human.

[The Rev Doc Andrew Arndt @theandrewarndt]

Some old men came to see Abba Poemen and said to him, “When we see brothers who are dozing at the synaxis, shall we rouse them so that they will be watchful?” He said to them, “For my part, when I see a brother who is dozing, I put his head on my knees and let him rest.”

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

We have oversold the "personal relationship" with Christ. We've cultivated a narcissistic, individualistic, self-help imagination for relating with God.

In this framework God's mission is an afterthought, community is an addendum, and holiness is "stop doing bad things".

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

Church Planter, you can gather early momentum around the bond of bitterness toward past churches.

BUT it will dissolve into commiserating and people will turn on each other when community eventually lets them down... and it will.

The energy of antagonism will betray you.

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

Christianity would change overnight if it put down the mantle of defending God and picked up the responsibility of loving enemies.

[Derek Vreeland @DerekVreeland]

I’ve found the combination of Wesleyan intentionality, evangelical energy, charismatic expectancy, and Anglican liturgy to work together beautifully in my experience of spiritual transformation.

We need the church, the whole church, if we are going to progress in Christlikeness.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

"If you are going to follow Jesus,
you better look good on wood."

My Jesuit brother Daniel Berrigan
died on this day five years ago.

[Barry Jones @barrydjones]

This morning I gave my last lecture at DTS. Normally my last session for this course is simply a summary & review of the semester. But today I asked my students to indulge me for a summary & review of the past 15 years. I offered them 7 admonitions:

[kennethtanner @kennethtanner]

If the human story continues another 8000 years, when humans look back to our time they will talk about the last 2000 years as but the beginning of Christianity. What if, contra so much speculation of the last century and more, the gospel is just starting to convert the world?

[TheSacredCommons @SacredCommons]

“God works through life, through people, and through physical, tangible, and material reality to communicate his healing presence in our lives.” ― Robert Webber

[TheSacredCommons @SacredCommons]

Christmas Eve service tonight at 6pm

[TheSacredCommons @SacredCommons]

Sacred Commons Adult Tee https://t.co/t5mR9zyUm5

[TheSacredCommons @SacredCommons]

Convergence is the attempt to re-embody and equally embrace the three historic streams of the church (sacramental, evangelical, pentecostal) acknowledging the legitimacy of each so that the practitioner does not have to make false choices, in regard to how they're christian.