The Politics of Jesus Jim Reynolds

We are in a Big Story that did not end when the last Apostle died.  So how do we make sense out of what the church has done and said for the last 1900 years?
Those who are angry about what the church has done have a point.  But does the bullying of the church justify rejecting the person of Jesus?  Did Jesus teach us to incinerate Jews or fight the Crusades? Or enslave Africans?  These are very good questions.
What good has the church done in history and what vision inspired that goodness?  Is the church dying globally right now?  How do we explain the decline of the Church in the West right now coupled with the explosive growth of the Church in Africa, China. and South America?  What is the Church's relationship to the National government and to the wider culture?
There are many witnesses from the recent and ancient past who will shed light on these questions.  Their witness will help us navigate life in Christ and His Church during this season of tumultuous events.  Believers such as Irenaeus, Augustine, Theresa of Avilla, William Wilberforce, Mother Theresa, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther King lived through very challenging seasons of history and in some instances died violent deaths for the sake of their crucified Lord.
Come join us as we learn from and are inspired by the voices of the "Church of the Living Dead."

We are in a Big Story that did not end when the last Apostle died.  So how do we make sense out of what the church has done and said for the last 1900 years?
Those who are angry about what the church has done have a point.  But does the bullying of the church justify rejecting the person of Jesus?  Did Jesus teach us to incinerate Jews or fight the Crusades? Or enslave Africans?  These are very good questions.
What good has the church done in history and what vision inspired that goodness?  Is the church dying globally right now?  How do we explain the decline of the Church in the West right now coupled with the explosive growth of the Church in Africa, China. and South America?  What is the Church's relationship to the National government and to the wider culture?
There are many witnesses from the recent and ancient past who will shed light on these questions.  Their witness will help us navigate life in Christ and His Church during this season of tumultuous events.  Believers such as Irenaeus, Augustine, Theresa of Avilla, William Wilberforce, Mother Theresa, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther King lived through very challenging seasons of history and in some instances died violent deaths for the sake of their crucified Lord.
Come join us as we learn from and are inspired by the voices of the "Church of the Living Dead."

We are in a Big Story that did not end when the last Apostle died.  So how do we make sense out of what the church has done and said for the last 1900 years?
Those who are angry about what the church has done have a point.  But does the bullying of the church justify rejecting the person of Jesus?  Did Jesus teach us to incinerate Jews or fight the Crusades? Or enslave Africans?  These are very good questions.
What good has the church done in history and what vision inspired that goodness?  Is the church dying globally right now?  How do we explain the decline of the Church in the West right now coupled with the explosive growth of the Church in Africa, China. and South America?  What is the Church's relationship to the National government and to the wider culture?
There are many witnesses from the recent and ancient past who will shed light on these questions.  Their witness will help us navigate life in Christ and His Church during this season of tumultuous events.  Believers such as Irenaeus, Augustine, Theresa of Avilla, William Wilberforce, Mother Theresa, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther King lived through very challenging seasons of history and in some instances died violent deaths for the sake of their crucified Lord.
Come join us as we learn from and are inspired by the voices of the "Church of the Living Dead."

We are in a Big Story that did not end when the last Apostle died.  So how do we make sense out of what the church has done and said for the last 1900 years?
Those who are angry about what the church has done have a point.  But does the bullying of the church justify rejecting the person of Jesus?  Did Jesus teach us to incinerate Jews or fight the Crusades? Or enslave Africans?  These are very good questions.
What good has the church done in history and what vision inspired that goodness?  Is the church dying globally right now?  How do we explain the decline of the Church in the West right now coupled with the explosive growth of the Church in Africa, China. and South America?  What is the Church's relationship to the National government and to the wider culture?
There are many witnesses from the recent and ancient past who will shed light on these questions.  Their witness will help us navigate life in Christ and His Church during this season of tumultuous events.  Believers such as Irenaeus, Augustine, Theresa of Avilla, William Wilberforce, Mother Theresa, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther King lived through very challenging seasons of history and in some instances died violent deaths for the sake of their crucified Lord.
Come join us as we learn from and are inspired by the voices of the "Church of the Living Dead."

We are in a Big Story that did not end when the last Apostle died.  So how do we make sense out of what the church has done and said for the last 1900 years?
 Those who are angry about what the church has done have a point.  But does the bullying of the church justify rejecting the person of Jesus?  Did Jesus teach us to incinerate Jews or fight the Crusades? Or enslave Africans?  These are very good questions.
 What good has the church done in history and what vision inspired that goodness?  Is the church dying globally right now?  How do we explain the decline of the Church in the West right now coupled with the explosive growth of the Church in Africa, China. and South America?  What is the Church's relationship to the National government and to the wider culture?
 There are many witnesses from the recent and ancient past who will shed light on these questions.  Their witness will help us navigate life in Christ and His Church during this season of tumultuous events.  Believers such as Irenaeus, Augustine, Theresa of Avilla, William Wilberforce, Mother Theresa, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther King lived through very challenging seasons of history and in some instances died violent deaths for the sake of their crucified Lord.
 Come join us as we learn from and are inspired by the voices of the "Church of the Living Dead."

Twenty-five years after Jesus' resurrection the apostle Paul, in an Ephesus prison, writes two letters to the church in Colossae.  One letter declares Jesus to be the "very image of God, the firstborn of all creation, the first born from the dead, who has reconciled all things through the blood of Christ's cross."  Paul goes on to call the Church to "… live your lives in him."  The call to live a new life in him transforms every relationship including Philemon's relationship to his runaway slave, Onesimus, who is returning to his Master.
Paul's letter to Philemon declares Onesimus has undergone an identity change:  slave to dear brother.  Paul begs Philemon to receive Onesimus back into his household.  In order for this miracle of reconciliation to happen between Onesimus and Philemon the Spirit of reconciliation, becoming friends again, must fill the little house church at Colossae.
Will the miracle of new creation happen?  Come join us as we explore the dynamics of New Creation within the brutal world of 1st century masters and slaves.