When Eucharist started we knew that the table was going to be core to our identity: we would eat together at potlucks, love feasts, and the Lord's Supper. We would set an open seat and welcome whoever God brought to us.
What we didn't see coming was how difficult that would make things...
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This sermon kicks off thirteen weeks learning about the core convictions of our Christian Way; perhaps best captured in the Apostles' Creed.
How can a Creed that is nearly 2000 years old still serve and build up the church today?
Let's start by understanding the Creed with four metaphors: the Creed is a train, a satellite, a table, and a wave.
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We all struggle with comparison. What does it look like to live a life of freedom, fully owning your story and your role to play, to become a part of something bigger than ourselves?
Plus a 15-point story consisting of 30 lives weaving together. It's epic.
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Moooooody Lights and Bunting
Potluck Prayers
Donut surprise by "Donut Monster," Hamilton's best donut shop run out of the Kitchen Collective, a group referenced in the sermon... and we didn't plan any of it!
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Professor at Wycliffe Seminary, and co-ordinator of the Institute for Evangelism, brings a good word about good news to Eucharist!
John shares very practical, gracious reflections on the need to use our words and our deeds to welcome people into where Jesus dwells.
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A sermon series five years in the making. We look at the five things that make our congregation just a little… unique!
The first value we hold? Do you even have to ask?
The table of course.
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The good Doctor looks at 1 Timothy 3 to give us the church as explored in three metaphors… and a bunch of different stories!
And given the first metaphor… here are some nice photos from our love feast the evening before this sermon:
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Eucharist Church has moved locations five times in five years… which is sort of crazy! What have we learned in that wandering, and what can we learn about wandering from the story of scripture?
These are the questions we ask as we settle into our (hopefully longer term!) new building: MacNab Presbyterian!
A quick tour of our time together on Sunday! We started in the garden outside before the gathering eating popsicles. JP came out and started leading us in music, singing “come into this place, meet us with your grace…”
We then entered into the hall where we will be gathering, and continued to worship and learn and communion together.
Finally we moved into the Sanctuary and got a tour by one of MacNab’s elders. He shared the history of the building, the stained glass windows, and the congregation… and it was super inspiring and gorgeous. We closed with a hymn and a benediction from the mega-pulpit.
2014.01.05 - COLOSSIANS REMIXED - Kevin Makins
COLOSSIANS EPILOGUE: PHILEMON & THE TABLE
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Philemon, Colossians 1, Romans 14, 2 Corinthians 5
Paul sends a runaway slave back to his master, because there are some things more important than freedom.
When the slave returned he brought two letters; one we call Colossians, and one we call Philemon. One to the whole church, and one to just the slave’s master.
The text:
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,
To Philemon our dear friend and co-worker, to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
When I remember you in my prayers, I always thank my God 5 because I hear of your love for all the saints and your faith toward the Lord Jesus.
I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective when you perceive all the good that we may do for Christ. I have indeed received much joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, my brother. For this reason, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do your duty, yet I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love—and I, Paul, do this as an old man, and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus.
I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment. Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful both to you and to me. I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you. I wanted to keep him with me, so that he might be of service to me in your place during my imprisonment for the gospel; but I preferred to do nothing without your consent, in order that your good deed might be voluntary and not something forced. Perhaps this is the reason he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a beloved brother—especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
So if you consider me your partner, welcome him as you would welcome me. If he has wronged you in any way, or owes you anything, charge that to my account. I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand: I will repay it. I say nothing about your owing me even your own self. Yes, brother, let me have this benefit from you in the Lord! Refresh my heart in Christ. Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say. One thing more—prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be restored to you.
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you, and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
