tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655521.post5345536985713492220..comments2024-02-23T17:09:12.957-05:00Comments on bethquick.com: Sermon for Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany, "Face to Face" (non-lectionary)Beth Quickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14171030571583683180noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655521.post-6076670305845000202011-02-21T22:27:11.185-05:002011-02-21T22:27:11.185-05:00No - I think that's a great idea - I actually ...No - I think that's a great idea - I actually was starting a section of sermon on that very direction, but it was getting too long, frankly, and I had to make some cuts ;) I'm hoping this Lent to feature speakers at our mid-week communion service that can talk about the mission they are engaged in outside the congregation, for a start.Beth Quickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14171030571583683180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655521.post-9593809716977978502011-02-21T08:41:01.354-05:002011-02-21T08:41:01.354-05:00Thanks for sharing this sermon. I would say that ...Thanks for sharing this sermon. I would say that you are asking for too little (just a thought!). What the Church does corporately "in mission" is so much less than what is and can be accomplished in people living out their Christian baptismal identity through their workplaces, their homes, their schools, their communities. When we challenge folks to do more in mission I wonder what it would look like to organize a congregations mission not through what we do corporately, but through the way the members of the congregation bear witness to the light in their lives in the world. Then again, maybe that's a really bad idea. Thanks for listening.Mike Matherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16235028237943894027noreply@blogger.com