In this Sunday gathering, the community welcomes Pastor Leah Martens back into the space after a 12 week sabbatical and reflects on what has been learned and experienced during the time this summer.
Stars or No Stars?
Photo Credit: Sandor Weisz. Creative Commons license.
Dr. Seuss' classic children's story The Sneetches explores the arbitrary ways groups define themselves against each other. As Dr. Christena Cleveland points out in her book Disunity In Christ, sadly the church is not immune from this phenomenon. But is that the only way it has to be? Or did Jesus, and the early church intend something better? In this teaching Leah explores Paul's hope for the early church to be a community that could hold diverse unity, and considers how we might continue to live into that hope.
First watch the video (or read the book), then you can read the notes or listen to the teaching below.