Recklessly abandoning the status quo, is never sweet, never harmless. For Paul, like Jesus, lived as a Jew in Palestine under the oppression of Roman Empire, which insisted that peace could only be established and maintained through violence. Risen indeed! We must put all our many blessings to use, to seek justice where-ever we can whenever we can.We cant do it all and we cant do it alone. For he is risen, and nothing separates us from Gods love! The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Jesus. You are invited to this table of life as we join with each other and seek communion with God. It is long past time for us to move beyond arguments about a physical resuscitation of Jesus body. It does not surprise me that Paul may have framed Jesus death in the context of both Pauls own Jewish sacrificial theologies and Romes violent philosophies. Christ is risen indeed! Or break the very atoms down to see how they are made, Great is the mystery of faith: Living as the Vine and Branches in the Era of COVID-19: A Worship Liturgy. The truth has left its fingerprints on every living thing. So, how is it that I deny the resurrection. Especially when what was lost is restored. Jesus Now, Easter Day. Let us pray for an abundance of health, for prosperity, and for joy. It is hard to maintain the heights that we attain on the celebration of Resurrection Day. As the night lengthened, Jesus took a simple portion of bread. A sacred offering of for the sake of life here on this our one and only planet, a planet capable of nourishing life for all of Earths inhabitants? Just like the people in the story, I want to be transformed by the story of Jesus; transformed from someone who cowers in a place of safety, filled with fear and doubts, into a powerful member of a movement to create peace through justice. When he placed his hand on my forehead, I stiffened my entire being, because there was no way I was going down. Faced with the task of communicating the gospel, the early followers of the risen Christ, began to articulate experiences of the risen Christ in ways that the Greek influenced Roman Empire could understand giving rise (pardon the pun), giving rise to the question of a physical resurrection. Where, O death is your sting?. When we forgo our obsession with Jesus death and open ourselves to the passions of Jesus life, we begin to see new ways to understand the new images of the HOLY ONE that Jesus encouraged his followers to see. Resurrection is about seeing behind and beyond death, ugliness, injustice, pain and despair. History should have taught us by now that that justice and not violence is the way to peace. Included here are just a few calls to worship, prayers, Scripture passages, and songs you can use in your Easter worship. ELOHIM, the GOD who is the feminine plural of MAJESTY, said to Elijah: Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of YHWEH, for YAHWEH is about to pass by. Imagine the MYSTERY, which is the I AM, the very essence of BEING is about to pass by. Not all bodies are the same! Thank you. For the Lord Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it (here the minister shall break the bread) and said, "This is my body which is for you. In this, the 21st century, there is a movement among progressive Christians that focuses more on who Jesus was and why he had such an impact on the world rather than his death. For GOD is not safely ensconced in the Heavens and we do not need saving from our own depravity by a human sacrifice because there simply is no Hell below us. rising you restored our life. It is a scary proposition for a pastor to venture out on a journey without the familiar trappings of familiar liturgy. It empowers us to hope in the coming resurrection and new life. Our very own lifestyles, demand what they are selling. Your support is needed to help ProgressiveChristianityorg. It is in Jesus life, not his death that we will find salvation. Limitations which the evolving nature of our understanding of reality compel us to reject. view on video. Breathe in the goodness of that space. Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the rocks. I share these tears with you knowing full well that tears wont put an end to war, nor will they end our constant reliance upon violence to maintain a fragile peace. I found out later that dozens, I mean dozens of young people were slain in the Spirit, that is, struck down onto the floor, writhing and shaking, hootin and a hollering. The Apostle Paul wrote: We who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. When followers of Jesus in the first century and in the twenty-first century talk about the resurrection of Christ, we are proclaiming that death did not have the last word in the Jesus story because his followers were raised up to be his body right here, right now. Strike-slip fault and overthrust and syn and anticline an ethic of justice and peace, and for the promise of transformation made manifest in his life, death and resurrection. When I think about the churchs practice of public confession, I can see how desperately I have been holding on to candies that no longer satisfy my need for forgiveness. (1 Kings 19:1-12) It is about a prophet named Elijah, who was struggling to understand the will of the they knew as YHWH, the HEBREW name for the MYSTERY we call God, which can be translated as I AM, WHO AM or I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE or the GREAT I AM. This story was written by the anonymous gospel-storyteller we know as John some 70 years after Jesus death, some twenty years after the Jewish war with Rome in which the Empire destroyed the Temple, raised most of Jerusalem to the ground, and sent Jews and the followers of Jesus into exile. They must have seen me gazing at them, or at least I like to imagine they did. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it unless it was for nothing that you believed. Pinging is currently not allowed. Send us your: ResourceEventNewsIdeasnow The grace and passion to love wastefully, CLOSING We Will Rise Again David Haas, *Parts of the liturgy were taken and modified from Michael Morwoods Praying a New Story, **Slideshow was taken and modified from Sapphire Productions. We rejoice that Jesus lives on, as we all will, in the reality we call God. Well, I deny the resurrection in the very same way as I suspect you deny the resurrection. Follow Michelle L. Torigian on WordPress.com, musings about liturgical adventures, poetic journeys and such, Wednesday Prayer Searching for Gratitude. A reading from 1st Corinthians chapter 13: When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child. Let me remind you that a generation before our anonymous gospel-storyteller wrote his account of Thomas doubts, somewhere around the years 50 to 53, the Apostle Paul wrote in his first letter to the Corinthian followers of the Way, that such questions about physical resurrection were in fact stupid. Rile em up! Only a foolWould sweep and sweep and sweep, leaving her purse unguarded, to search for one lone coin. Lord Jesus, come in glory. Longing to experience and share the fullness of Life that you offer, Jesus Way of being insists that justice for everyone is the only way to peace. Their beloved leader had been brutally executed by the powers that be and they were terrified that they would be next. Progressive Christian prayers Wild God, talking to Jesus - John van de Laar, South Africa Wild God - words to Jesus It seems to us that things would be much easier if you would just do what we ask, Jesus, If you were more compliant and co-operative, more flexible and adaptable, more open to follow agendas other than your own. And also with you. Today, is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. DONATE NOW! } Im not so sure however, that Jesus response to his disciples indignation is all comforting. Sunday between November 27 and December 3. Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. World in Prayer, the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, Lodi, California. We lift them up to God. This my body, given for you. Gone are the vestments, the prescribed lectionary readings, and the familiar words. We have technology and access to wisdom. The apostle Paul, both a Jew and a Roman citizen, would have known from the perspective of both the conquer and the conquered the Roman motto, vini, vedi, vici I came, I saw, I conquered. The Parliamentarians victory may have looked like the way to peace, but it was no peace at all, it was as Dom Crossan puts it, just a lull in the violence. So, in the same way, we, of the Namaste Church, honor the Divinity in all people and this is why we called this church Namaste which means We honor the Divinity Within You.. You see Paul was skilled in the ancient art of rhetoric and would recognize my own rhetoric for what it is. The response is Alithos Aneste! These days they are called orcas. //jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); Continue reading . We lose our capacity for peace and joy, we struggle to show compassion and to connect with others, and we may find ourselves slipping into toxic and destructive attitudes and habits. You sent your only-begotten,in whom your fullness dwells, Jesus suffered the worst of his worlds violence. Do we have the courage to drink from the cup which Jesus offers to all who profess to follow him? The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Jesus. Amen. I mean, like, its common sense. Hosanna in the highest. Little did I know that in 1977 it would take me almost three days to travel the more than 1,000 km; a trip which included disembarking over and over again to lend a hand to the conductors as we worked together to clear the tracks of snow. Can, will, or indeed, should the Church Survive?. Jesus, the archetypal human, in which DIVINITY is embodied, confirms that human life, does not die, but is resurrected, transformed. May we be transfigured by her courage to do our part to turn her mourning into dancing. But way back then; the bay was only accessible by the most treacherous of logging roads. I was unbeatable. %PDF-1.5 Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.". We remember that his disciples met him on the road. None of us believe that we live in a three-tiered universe. He opened the scriptures, explaining everything; and they knew him in the breaking of the bread. by Alydia Smith. LONG LIVE GOD! You can skip to the end and leave a response. When we focus upon the life of Jesus of Nazareth rather than the death of Jesus, we can begin to hear some of the things that Jesus was passionate about. 2021 All rights Reserved | Site by Fix8, Communion: SALTs Lectionary Commentary for Twelfth Week after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Commentary John 6:51-58, Three and One: SALTs Lectionary Commentary for Trinity Sunday, What Does This Mean? 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But like so many athletes, when my status changed from amateur to professional, I lost my championship status and although I still qualify as a professional wrestler, and I like to see myself as a champion, Im no longer what you would call world-class. Let us be reckless in our LOVing, Grounded in our service, outrageously generous in our ransoming life on this planet. It was an epic trip on which my once innocent 20-year-old self learned to swig akvavit like a Viking. Resurrection is beauty appreciated, love shared, justice implemented. These tears will wash away our illusions of a quick fix and wipe away our delusions that by violently enforcing the status quo we can create peace. I expect people to act. Written by Rev. Odd, long-vanished creatures and their tracks & shells are found; When we set aside the institutional narrative of atonement that the church has relied upon to interpret the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the idol that masquerades as god, the idol whose contours are reinforced in our worship services, by our hymns, prayers, creeds, choice of scriptures, and rituals, this idol begins to crumble. 3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. So, I waved and was gifted by their own energetic response. You and I are the wealthiest followers of Jesus who have ever walked the Earth. *All sing: (suggested: "I Serve a Risen Savior" or "Christ Our Lord Is Risen Today"). Amen. We have tasted your nourishing, nurturing presence; and of the sufferings that are going on around us, let us pray for the establishment of peace, in our hearts and on earth. It didnt take very long for me to realize that I was in the presence of something much larger than myself. Christ is risen! I also want you to resist making the story all about you. We know that humans have been evolving over millennia. That left my chamber-maiding at a local lodge where the housekeeper was always kind enough to keep my Sunday mornings free so that I could go to church, while hung-over colleagues struggled to clean up. There we stood, we three kindred creatures, waving together as ONE, held in a vast Cosmos touched by the MYSTERY which is the LOVE which permeates ALL that IS, including us, for we are ONE, ONE with DIVINITY. Well, like, this egg falls off the wall and if you study biology or physics, you know you can never put an egg back together again. Imagine if you will, trying to understand the life of Martin Luther King, or Mahatma Gandhi simply by focusing upon their death. that they may be washed away by the mercy of our risen Lord. Free from images and idols created by the inhabitants of a universe of misconceptions, we can abandon lives devoted to a god preoccupied with judging our journeys end, dispatching us to Heaven or Hell. The Earth, the Heavens, and the seas.Now even though the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras proposed that the Earth was round in the 6th century before the common era. The response is Alithos Aneste! Human beings have one kind, animals have another, birds another, and fish another. Carmel Lutheran Church, Portland, OR: Easter Morning: a service of the dawning of new light with Holy Communion. Jesus way did not include taking up the sword to achieve peace. At Easter all the themes of the Christian Gospel are held together in one great burst of life. The text beginning with the Invitation is read by pastor and people from the hymnal. Alleluia! Alleluia! The parts of the service preceding the text in UMH are guided by a bulletin or by announcement. This knowledge has to change the way in which we see our relationship with the MYSTERY that lies at the very source of our being; our Creator if you will. THEME The Rapturous Awakening The Irrepressible God The Ever-present Mystery, From Good Fridays gruesome darkness. In LOVE, we are ransomed from our fear, ransomed from our arrogance and ransomed from our self-centredness, set free to trust the MYSTERY which is LOVE so that we to might live the way of LOVE, so that we might be LOVE in the world, here on this planet. Our kinship warmed me as I imagined their delight at our Suns sensuous self-giving display as it set. Continue reading . It wasnt about believing in resurrection it was about practicing resurrection. Gardens often provide a space for worship in a neutral setting outside the church for people to gather and share a faith experience. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); Or perhaps it is that both are dead. Come, drink together from the Cup of Gladness! I suspect that pulling brothers together who have genuine axes to grind is the kind of recklessness that is worth the risk, if those siblings can learn to work together to pursue justice. In a world that so often denies or ignores the humanity-robbing effects of pain and suffering, Irrepressible (Personal Spiritual Practice Guide PDF), More Than Words Living What We Pray (PDF), Living in the Promised Land: A Lent Journey (Year B) (PDF). Others stretched the wings of their spirituality and flew off into the magic darkness joyfully singing: All will be well and all manner of things shall be well! (Julian of Norwich). Or are we afraid that stripped of the security which our wealth affords us, our privileged positions will disappear, and we too shall find ourselves dependent upon the goodness of others? Then he said to them, Today, in your hearing, this scripture passage is fulfilled. (Luke 4:14-21). Children and youth might be used as servers and/or readers. Your coming we await with hope. According to the story, paralyzed by their fear, hiding behind a locked door, something happened that gave them the strength to burst forth from their own tomb and change the world. What could possibly compel Jesus friends and neighbours to consider homicide? 4810 Pt. Jean and I have studied the historical Jesus in depth and found him to be someone who had a powerful impact on the world because of his radical perception: He modeled for us how to live in the Truth and stand up for justice. -Michael Morwood. If we look at the stories that have been told about Jesus, the stories that have contributed so much to the creation of the idol that masquerades as the Mystery we call God, we discover a narrative that seems preoccupied with Jesus death. Let us pray for the intentions within our hearts: We know that when we raise our minds and hearts to the Presence among us, extraordinary things happen. jQuery(document).on('change', '#submission-action', function(){ Only a fool would welcome home with joy and abandon a wayward child who had used, rejected, dishonoured, and then returned only to try to use them again. Settle into your seat, close your eyes and imagine a place that brings you comfort and peace. But Anna and Steve were always at it. Time for quiet reflection: I am eternally linked with the source of all life, Please respond Amen after each of the following affirmations of our Eucharistic Prayer. Violence, how long will we put our faith in violence? Anyway, poor old Elijah suffered in his quest to bring the WORD of YHWH to his people and in the midst of his turmoil, Elijah was lost and fearing for his life. 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Repent from the Greek word metanoia made up of two Greek words: meta which means, beyond and noos which means mind. Metanoia is an invitation to move beyond your current way of thinking. Let us offer a sacrifice in the form of embodied LOVE. At every opportunity that our busy schedules allowed us, Anna and Steve did their level best to save me from my wicked ways. All who are truly sorry for their sins, who sincerely believe in the Lord Jesus as their Savior, and who desire to live in obedience to him, are now invited to come with gladness to the table of the Lord. Shalom. You wouldnt know very much about the civil rights movement, about Dr. Kings dream, his vision of equality, his struggle for inclusion, his cries for justice for the poor, his vision economic equality, or his passion for peace, and his commitment to non-violent resistance. We share this bread and drink, as Jesus shared a Passover meal with his disciples, and we partake of it together as our pledge of openness to the Spirit of Love in our midst, and as our remembrance of Jesus who invited us to do even greater things than he did. Repent Metanoia let us think new thoughts so that we might ask: What can Jesus teach us? Disappointed I resigned myself to abandoning our plans to camp on the hillsides which envelope the port of Narvik. that we may further your reign of peace and justice in every place. MEDITATION Music: In the Garden Eddie Watkins. /* My friend and radical theologian Peter Rollin says it much better than I ever could. We have been distracted by violence into compliance with systems which threaten our existence as a species, as we loot our planet of its life-giving resources so that we might increase our abilities to perpetrate violence on grander and grander scales. Only a fool, would run head-long, open armed to kiss such a wayward fool, extravagantly bestow more household treasures, and expect the faithful to join in the rejoicing.Only a fool, would cajole the self-righteous, indignant child to join the celebration. Holy, gracious, God, The conflation with Spring and new life is no coincidence we are grateful for the cycle of renewal in all its forms. We need to reach our year-end fundraising goal that will determine what we can do for 2023. Humans have tried in vain to get themselves back into the garden, to restore our oneness with our creator. In an instant I wiggled free, spun around and connected with what I figured would be a fatal blow. I know that we wont solve it in time to save Ukraine. So glad to hear that this liturgy is meaningful for you. We offer ourselves as your people in your service. Send us into the world resurrected, refreshed and ready to share Christs unconditional love. Hosanna in the highest. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. *The ThanksgivingLeader: Lift up your hearts. The question of a physical body makes no sense to the ancients. All rights reserved. Frame 8: When you make the biggest mistake ever,something good comes from it.*. 2 0 obj The Earth was flat. Our very freedom from ancient ways of knowing and being sets of a chain-reaction of freedom which can, if we let it, become Good News for the poor, as we finally begin to understand what Jesus knew all along, when Jesus insisted, I and the ABBA are ONE. For if Jesus and the ABBA are ONE, the Good News is that you and I and our neighbours, we are ONE with ABBA. Continue reading . Exposed to the vastness of the Cosmos, it was the ancient story of a Three-tiered Universe that inspired not murderous intentions in me, but rather the euphoria of freedom from captivity to the limitations of our ancestors imaginations. I am using it this Sunday and sharing your credit information! Still no luck. Let it go. Sure enough, the vase slipped off as smooth as silk. If you are watching this on a screen, chances are that your own wealth far exceeds the expectations of billions of people struggling to survive on this planet. So, I invite you to see for yourselves. Lift up your hearts. Our focus upon preserving the church gets in the way of our rebirth! But they will not be tears cried in vain. In the past few weeks, Ive been thinking a great deal about the systems of domination and the pain inflicted by the unjust empires of our world. As far back as the sixteenth century, a Polish monk named Nicolaus Copernicus calculated that the Earth is not the center of a three-tiered universe. I dont know. Some of the people remained in the fragmented remnants and developed compensating mantras. stream We covenant to love as Jesus the Christ loved us- loving our neighbors as ourselves. And when she got stuck she did what all small children do, when they have gotten themselves into a situation that the cant get out of, little Crystal cried for help. Salvation is about making us whole, ONE with one another and ONE with the ONE who is as Jesus taught with his very life is the LOVE we call GOD. When I was an amateur wrestler, I was a world-class champion wrestler. window.location.replace('https://progressivechristianity.org/paupress/?rel=contact&pau_form=contact_form'); Psalm 25:1-10. Letting go of our carefully crafted and tightly held images of the ONE who IS the SOURCE of ALL BEING is a daunting task. And we who listen to the stars, or walk the dusty grade (from Heidelberg Catechism Q & A 45). This bread and drink represents our life and all the giftedness that each of us bring to the table. Send us your: ResourceEventNewsIdeasnow Pauls description of resurrection does not conflict with our 21stcentury inability to accept the suspension of the natural order of the Cosmos. But those fools made their billions serving us, satisfying our desires, fortifying our comforts, delivering our lifestyles to our doorsteps. I dont mind confessing my own fear. *All: Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord! Take a few moments to walk across the sanctuary and have a word with someone about who Jesus was? Fortunately, the youth hostel was full, and we were forced to hike up and out of town to find a suitable spot to pitch our tents. It wasnt until this endless loop exposed the presence of yet another face of CHRIST that I begin to be transfigured. Now, O God, with grateful hearts we remember Jesus. To be ransomed from our very selves, ransomed from the fear which holds us captive to empires built on the backs of the poor. 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