Honoring Christ In Our Work-Day 3
Jesus’ Work in Culture Earlier we discussed Jesus as our “minister” in Hebrews 8:2. Ironically and curiously, the same word used for Jesus’ work in Hebrews is used in Romans 13:4 by Paul in referring to the secular and evil authorities of our world. The point? Even those in worldly cultural leadership have been granted some authority by God to work their rhythms, liturgies (forms), shapes, and ideas into the...
Honoring Christ In Our Work-Day 2
Jesus’ Work in the Church The Bible uses so many different metaphors to describe the church. The Bible says the church is body, many but one, and connected to Christ as our “Head.” Like a temple we are built up. Like a bride we are married to Christ our Beloved. The church is pure like a virgin,[ and yet unified as if in the same way sex unifies man and wife as one flesh. We are likened to a family, citizens of a...
Honoring Christ In Our Work-Day 1
Jesus’ work in the Cosmos In Hebrews 8:2 the writer says this about Jesus; “We have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister [λειτουργὸς-leitourgos] in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man.” Jesus here is called a minister, or servant. In the Greek, this is the word leitourgos. It is derived from leitos, “belonging to the...
WMC Podcast, Episode 0203
Sarah Kroger Discusses “Bloom” A worship release caught out attention recently. Sarah Kroger’s debut album with Integrity, Bloom, showed up in our inbox last month with a long list of production and co-writer credits that we couldn’t ignore including our friends Ross King, PJ Anderson, Audrey Assad, and Josh Blakesley. That was intriguing enough for us to give the album a spin. It certainly didn’t...
Honoring Christ In Technology-Day 3
The Book of Acts it is the story and history of the church. In it, we see the Apostles send letters, ride in boats, access modern trade routes and traveling systems, and preach in town squares and facilities related to the architecture and culture of that day. The Apostles were able to harness the highest forms of “tech” in the Roman empire to share the gospel. We should do the same. The Apostolic philosophy toward tech in...
Honoring Christ In Technology-Day 2
God’s wise method for making himself known on the earth in something as simple as soil, meals, and a family is brilliant. Why? We must first realize that God is timeless (outside of and unbound by limits) and can see the beginning of time as well as he knows the ending. It would seem logical that God not only saw our “today” while creating the world in Genesis, and in deciding how he would sovereignly lay out, orchestrate, and...
Honoring Christ In Technology-Day 1
Have you ever wondered why God doesn’t begin the story of life with a 501(c3) non-profit entity? Why didn’t he begin with a building? Wall Street? A School? Why did God begin the story of life with a marriage, a family, and a meal (The Garden)? And yet, with all the technological advancements and church ministry advancements of the past two thousands years, it would seem that in all of our “evolvement” we struggle in keeping our...
Honoring Christ In Improv, Acting, And Presenting Scripture-Day 3
Tom Boomershine talks about how we must once again start to experience old texts – and especially the Bible – orally as they were originally conveyed orally or, in the case of the Epistles, they were written in such a way as to be read orally to others. Tom read the passage in Mark about the calming of the storms and seas. He read it once as a sort of standard reading: the sort of thing you might experience in any given liturgical...
WMC Podcast, Episode 0202
Let’s Get to Praisin’… Easter is just a few days away, and I’m sure worship teams are putting forth significant effort to prepare for the Greatest Day in history. In the meantime, put on your headphones and spend a little time with the crew for our latest episode. Niya kicks us off with an introduction to “One Gotta Go”, a new segment based on the popular social media phenomenon. Perhaps...
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