Ministry of the Church (174)
  1. Jesus is the ultimate, endearing, and definitive answer to the world’s problems, not any political party or ideology, nor any religion or the combination of the two.
  2. Mary looms large in our theology, our liturgy, our confessions and creeds.
  3. You are the baptized, for in Christ we are all wet. The demographic dividers are washed away.
  4. The Magnificat invites us to enter into, consider, and embrace the worldview of a teenaged Jewish girl and her geriatric aunt: The one bearing the prophet Elijah which was to come and the other carrying within her womb the God whom she and her nation worshipped and feared.
  5. John’s excitement invites his readers to lay hold of this above all else: The lavish love of God.
  6. Only the resurrection of Jesus guarantees and facilitates divine presence and love to us as divine life for us.
  7. Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.
  8. If Easter is about Jesus as the prototype of the new creation, then the Ascension is about His enthronement as the One who rules forevermore on Earth as it is in Heaven.
  9. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  10. Authentic proclamation, then, is the love of Christ for our souls, which we have seen and experienced through the under-shepherd’s pastoral care put into the words of Christ Himself.
  11. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  12. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
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