Posts from the ‘Church & Community’ Category
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September 11th, 2014 | Church & Community, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
The pressure to be politically correct can sometimes hinder us from speaking authentically, asking difficult questions, or sharing our true feelings, according to Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. Traditions like Native American talking circles and the Peace and Reconciliation Committees in South Africa are examples of people creating intentional […]
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September 11th, 2014 | Christian Living, Church & Community, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“Take it out of the clouds and bring it down to my everyday life,” says Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. “The dream is that it is a norm in the church, but it starts in our individual lives, each of us asking the question, ‘Where in my life can […]
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September 11th, 2014 | Church & Community, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“That a foundation [of the church] would be diversity,” says Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. “That [church] would be a beautiful expression of who God is, having created all of us in His image. I would love the church to look like that.”
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September 11th, 2014 | Church & Community, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“A lot of that is going to start with how we interact with either developing leaders or identifying leaders within the communities in which we’re serving,” says Leroy Barber, Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. Missions leadership will continue to lack diversity unless we intentionally seek out leadership in minority communities. “Sometimes it’s merely […]
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September 11th, 2014 | Church & Community, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“Fundraising is definitely a big part of why we don’t see people of color [in leadership in many missions organizations],” says Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. One way of eroding some of the inherent racism and classism in the typical missions fundraising model is to set a community goal […]
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July 25th, 2014 | Church & Community, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Rick Gerhardt
“We do have a corporate responsibility to repent for the sins of our ancestors,” replies Rick Gerhardt, Biologist and Christian Apologist. There are times when the prophet of Israel is asked by God to repent for the sins of his ancestors, likewise “the white Christian church in America today still has to deal with repenting […]
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July 25th, 2014 | Church & Community, God & Christianity, Rick Gerhardt
“The local church is God’s plan A for how to spread the good news and how to redeem the world, and he doesn’t have a plan B,” responds Rick Gerhardt, Biologist and Christian Apologist. To allow Christians to stay out of the local church “would be like rescuing an orphan from an abusive family relationship […]
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June 20th, 2014 | Church & Community, Doubt & Questions on Faith, God & Christianity, Ken Wytsma
“It’s all about getting it right,” answers Ken Wytsma, President of Kilns College and Pastor of Antioch Church in Bend, OR. In the local church, legalism manifests as the mentality that you must believe or act a certain way to belong. Wytsma rebukes this, saying, “No, you have to get grace and connect with Jesus […]
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May 21st, 2014 | Church & Community, Dr. Samuel Adams, God & Christianity, Jesus, Apostles & the Early Church
“The mennonite church…it’s a tradition today that emphasizes radical discipleship, your primary loyalty to Jesus Christ, not any nation-state, a refusal of the sword…part of that is radical acts of peacemaking and reconciliation,” defines Samuel Adams, PhD, Mennonite Pastor, Assistant Professor of Theology & Social Justice and Director of Graduate Studies at Kilns College. “A […]
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May 21st, 2014 | Church & Community, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Dr. Samuel Adams, God & Christianity, Jesus, Apostles & the Early Church
“I am excited that God is moving in the world…one of the reasons I think we don’t see it in our churches is that our churches are very comfortable,” says Samuel Adams, PhD, Mennonite Pastor, Assistant Professor of Theology & Social Justice and Director of Graduate Studies at Kilns College. Often God’s work occurs more […]
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