Tag: division

• The Missing Piece in our Social Discourse

  “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and…

  Blake

  August 24, 2017

  Church Communications, Church Unity, conflict, Genuine Community, Reconciliation, Spiritual Gifts, The Church’s Influence

  arrogance, attitude, church, conflict, conversation, discourse, division, humility, Jesus, Paul, Philippians 2, social media

• The Divisiveness of the Cross

  So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had…

  Blake

  April 2, 2015

  conflict, Forgiveness, leadership, missional, Spiritual Formation, The Church’s Influence, the revolution

  Christ, cross, destruction, devastation, division, divisiveness, Easter, Egypt, Exodus 14, Freedom, gospel, Hebrew, holy, Jesus, Jewish, liberation, Luke 12, Moses, nation, Red Sea, salvation

• Our Foolish Fragile Fences

  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. Ephesians 2:13-14 We all build fences. It is an essential part of…

  Blake

  September 18, 2014

  Church Unity, conflict, Genuine Community, missional

  Bush, cancer, chemo, Christian, church, community, democrat, division, election, Ephesians 2, fences, Gentile, Gore, holy, Jew, otherization, otherize, politics, republican, separate, together, unity