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Lord’s Prayer as Kingdom Prayer #2

Here is another little gem from N.T. Wright’s book on the Lord’s Prayer:

We can only pray this prayer for the church if we are prepared to mean: Make us Kingdom Bearers! Make us a community of healed healers; make us a retuned orchestra to play the Kingdom-music until the world takes up the song.

Filed under: The Wheatland Mission, Wright, prayer

Christian Time

Here is a link to Wheatland’s old blog and a post on the Christian Year. We are fully into the New Christian Year, having just chalked our porches for Epiphany, and I thought this review might be helpful. There are some other Christian Year links below.

The Concept of Christian Time from the Old Wheatland Mission Site 

The Christian Year Info

HT: BiL (bro-in-law) Rustin

Filed under: Christian Time, The Wheatland Mission, from the profane to the sublime

from Orthodoxy

Teason left this quote by G.K. Chesterton in our church’s blog. I agree with him that these words give shape to a missional outlook for our community. You can see all of his comment here:  Teason’s Wheatland Comment.

No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look up at its colossal good without once feeling acquiescence? Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair? Can he, in short, be at once not only a pessimist and an optimist, but a fanatical pessimist and a fanatical optimist? Is he enough of a pagan to die for the world, and enough of a Christian to die to it? In this combination, I maintain, it is the rational optimist who fails, the irrational optimist who succeeds. He is ready to smash the whole universe for the sake of itself.

Filed under: Chesterton, The Wheatland Mission, missional

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What I Said Some Time Ago

“I shall not find Christ at the end of my journey unless he accompanies me along the way.” - Esther De Waal, Celtic Way of Prayer
“Our chance to be healed comes when the waters of our life are disturbed.” – Elizabeth O’Conner, Call to Commitment
"It is not allowable to love the Creation according to the purposes one has for it, any more than it is allowable to love one’s neighbor in order to borrow his tools." - Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
"It has always been more difficult to come to terms with Jesus as the way than with Jesus as the truth. It is more difficult to realize the ways our thinking and behavior get fused into a life of relational love and adoration with neighbor and God, God and neighbor." - Eugene Peterson, "Christian Century", Nov 29, 2003
"Past is past. Past is not present. Did is not do. Was is not is." - John Wesley Weasel in Book of the Dun Cowby Walter Wangerin.

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