If all we do is spend our time trying to get our online worship better (or started), then we have missed the point of church altogether.
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Bowling for Jesus and talking Juvenile detention with Rev. Terri Jane Stewart
In this episode, RevDJ interviews Rev. Terri Jane Stewart who is the Director of Youth Chaplaincy at King County Juvenile Center and pastor at Milton United Methodist Church. In this episode she talks bowling, Incarceration, and what LGBTQIA+ stands for "(Our hope) is to make not just a safe space, but a brave space where people can be included in"
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What do ten pounds of bacon, Jesus birthday, and Indigenous persons have in common this week?
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Sermon Starter | 4.28.19 | John 20:19-31
“I freely share my thoughts and reflections for you to use as you wish…I offer these reflections to you with the hope that maybe a few of these thoughts will be helpful in your preaching preparation.”
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I believe there is a line we must not cross. When people are being harmed or told they are less than another. That is simply wrong. When we choose to focus on our money and wealth over the sacredness of each human being. That is definitely wrong. That happened in St. Louis when we began this special session by focusing first on our money and second on the people. These are a few manifestations of sin that that my church actively participates in. We are an unrepentant church that continually chooses dogma over grace, doctrine over love and self-righteousness over discipleship. I am complicit in all of this by my actions and inactions.
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“The United Methodist Church, as I know it, has a chronic illness of consistently finding ways to exclude and marginalize persons while telling them all along that they are of sacred worth. We have a chronic illness, but that doesn’t mean we have to always be this way.
Starting very soon, the United Methodist Church...can take one very positive step closer toward remission.”
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