Thousand Acre Church

I’m still talking about communion here.  “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”  So,… Eating the Lord’s Supper is how we proclaim the Lord’s death.  Huh?  How do you proclaim the Lord’s death by consuming saltines and grape juice?  I’m not saying […]

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The question that I can’t dismiss is this, “If sharing meals was so central and characteristic to the mission of Jesus and the first century Church, then why don’t we eat together anymore?”
I mean, I hardly catch more than four meals a week at the dinner table with my OWN family, and WE ARE INTENTIONAL  […]

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I just can’t help it… There are some discussions among friends about communion, and I’ve got to throw in my two chips worth of ideas.  Except its more than two chips… its more like a hundred chips, so I’ve got to reply with blog posts instead of blog comments.  You can check out their thoughts on their […]

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A dated quote (25 June 2007, find the entire article here) from City Journal reads:
Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, is very nervous about releasing his new research, and understandably so. His five-year study shows that immigration and ethnic diversity have a devastating short- and medium-term influence on the social capital, fabric […]

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I wrote a post last week on the Collection as initiated by the apostle Paul which served as a symbol of unity in the early Christian church.  My post was mostly a summary of something I heard in a lecture given by Anglican Bishop N T Wright at Regent University.  You can review that post […]

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