DEEP EPISCOPALIANISM
Something called the Episcopal Evangelism Network has a conference coming up:
The Spirit is transforming our whole world, unveiling the image of God already present in all of us. Evangelism is the spiritual practice of opening ourselves to engage the image of God in others. Through this spiritual practice of seeking and serving Christ in all persons, we are drawn into the Spirit’s reconciling and transforming passion. This passion drives us to mission, the gathering of spiritual communities in which we can experience each other and ourselves as the Beloved of God. This experience of Belovedness makes us want more. We want to expand and deepen our capacity to practice the kinds of evangelism and mission through which we participate in the Spirit’s revelation of God’s love.
Did any of you understand any of that? No? Oh well. Anyway, what will EEN’s conference consist of and what exactly are these people going to do there? This.
Together we will explore: engaging people and communities generatively across lines of difference, forming missional leaders who can nurture others’ pursuit of their authentic vocation, and discerning the Spirit’s movement in our worship, in our spiritual communities and in our local contexts. In all these explorations, we will seek to follow the Spirit’s lead together.
If that’s Episcopal evangelism, I can’t for the life of me figure out why the Episcopal Organization is losing members and money as fast as it is. It’s an absolute mystery.
The Spirit is transforming our whole world, unveiling the image of God already present in all of us. Evangelism is the spiritual practice of opening ourselves to engage the image of God in others. Through this spiritual practice of seeking and serving Christ in all persons, we are drawn into the Spirit’s reconciling and transforming passion. This passion drives us to mission, the gathering of spiritual communities in which we can experience each other and ourselves as the Beloved of God. This experience of Belovedness makes us want more. We want to expand and deepen our capacity to practice the kinds of evangelism and mission through which we participate in the Spirit’s revelation of God’s love.
Did any of you understand any of that? No? Oh well. Anyway, what will EEN’s conference consist of and what exactly are these people going to do there? This.
Together we will explore: engaging people and communities generatively across lines of difference, forming missional leaders who can nurture others’ pursuit of their authentic vocation, and discerning the Spirit’s movement in our worship, in our spiritual communities and in our local contexts. In all these explorations, we will seek to follow the Spirit’s lead together.
If that’s Episcopal evangelism, I can’t for the life of me figure out why the Episcopal Organization is losing members and money as fast as it is. It’s an absolute mystery.
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