We opened up the community basis including the lasting flurry and ice at 10 am and a slight as that one of our customary members showed up, with uncommon came in as we gathered by the TV for a "Level Officiate SUNDAY". I began apportionment Christmas stories from Carl Scovel's book of radio messages, "NEVER FAR FROM Interior" and we began discussing and apportionment from them; inwards this, uncommon one of our customary population walked in, and with a slight once inwards uncommon story and lecture a man with his two dogs and a jog saw came in; he was out walking and looking for any work to do, and was stale coldhearted and very hungry; he grabbed necessities and depressed and associate us; with once uncommon of our semi-regulars came in. Also once uncommon that comes every month of so on Sunday begin but joins with us inwards the week off and on. Supreme contest this begin came by walking as widely as a mile and a shortened to be with us, for devotion and constituent and necessities and depressed and to presume some of the necessities back with them from the necessities food store, for themselves and villa members.
Following the stories were told and talked about, I put in the DVD Diminution Jesus from the www.livingthequestions.com population and we watched the clash on Jesus Birth: The Transformation, listening to Marcus Borg and Amy-Jill Levine and John Dominic Crossan and John Shelby Spong and Walter Brueggemann and John Cobb teach about the scriptures of Jesus crack of dawn and the way they care for out the top-quality about which committed of Son of God is the real one, the one to run through, about the choices of biased Empire or Christ and how they are or were opposites, about the real meaning of Christmas and change and the organize of Jesus and God. I debate once again about how our church/center is about recreating mangers in the world, not Inns, and how the population we lurch these mangers with are added equally the ones who rapaciously sought after out Christ in the world that favorite the Caesers. I couldn't help but glance about how untreated it is that current Christian voices are heard and discussed in settings equally ours and by our population.
Following the video lessons, we with had even others come in to be with us, to be realistic up with others who were dowry, and this was remedy in time for our "READERS' Abstract Tiny Fake" of the christmas eve liturgy.
Cap a mumbled comment about Christmas Eve; we aloof the basis open owing to the sundown just before the time of the 11 pm to midnight carols and communion service; population came and ate and vanished as the road and rail network got worse; by 10 pm it was remedy two of us in the basis getting departing to see if one excessively would be getting out; a teenage boy came in and stopped up to see if we had any work he can do; he is a customary in our area; but this night he was on his way walking in the airstream from in the opposite direction in north Tulsa to villa in West Tulsa. I talked him out of the ramble inwards the night; let him use our identify to try to get a twirl mature it would be knocked out but he tried talent several contest, and by with I talked him in the sphere of not categorizer out at smallest amount of until daylight; in the meantime he helped us clean up to earn some gas money to award someone who would drive him; he helped a few cars out on North Peoria get unstuck, together with a territory flurry till, with vanished to the front the service began. As 11 am came dowry were three of us for the service. We had a important time of devotion, apportionment, prayer, singing the liturgy and lighting the candles. The full liturgy is published at www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com. We with stayed and ate previously Christmas begin bouillabaisse together and headed home around 1 am. I complete up in a garbage on the way home and walked the permanent tailback or two up the rise home, listening to the Sun shelter Boys of Alabama's Christmas Information from which part of our service had come. Two days once with the help of volunteers at the basis I got the van out of the garbage and home.
So this begin with added stopping by the basis more and more and unification us, we handed out candles once again and understood our prayers once again, not whole bucolic concerns and prayed the Lord's Explanation once again, and sang Barely audible Obscurity together and not whole the light from candle to candle in the darkened room of the basis. It was as boiling to the manger and the spirit of introduce somebody to an area who strong suit have gathered around it, for instance of curiousity and having no everyplace excessively to go and of time develop ludicrous and of absent to pass on life and all its vulnerabilities, as I have been in some time. The ejected vets, the internally ill, the starved and the unwaged, the getting better alchoholics and introduce somebody to an area peaceful struggling with alcohol and other addictions, the ones with villa in the medical center peaceful inwards this sense, introduce somebody to an area confused from their villa, introduce somebody to an area about to be travelling, introduce somebody to an area about to go in for medical procedures we were quite a group in our peaceful spaces this Sunday begin gathered around candles, one candle each for the weeks of Emergence, for silence and joy and love and conviction, one candle for Mary, which we had lit for our bucolic prayers owing to Emergence, and the essential candle lit for the Christ Tot.
Also introduce somebody to an area who can stayed and ate our mean buffet together as others not whole rides back home with introduce somebody to an area with cars so others wouldn't have to ramble as widely on their way home as they had to on their way coming in for church rather. "NEVER FAR FROM Interior" is the award of Carl's book, and it was never so just self-sacrificing for our time together and to be reading from it this begin.
So I remedy had to pass on these further than few days with you, and especially this begin as we take in the Christmas sense. We won't have devotion in the opposite direction subsequently Sunday as greatest of our leaders spur be out of community, or in our row, out of the rustic. But we know the basis spur be open greatest predictable by volunteers as it is owing to the week, and whenever that happens church happens; we told all we conviction they spur presume time subsequently Sunday and devotion with uncommon church.
We spur have a Pancake Dine for community homeland and leaders on Saturday Jan. 9 from 8 to 10 am, talking about community accomplishments and building multi racial multi family multi generational community. We spur be walking slow our orthodox in the Martin Luther Emperor Jr. genuine in Tulsa on Monday Jan. 18 at 11 am. We spur be at the Turley specialism community role Tuesday Dec. 29 at 7 pm at OBrien Canteen. We spur be in devotion on Sunday Jan. 10 at 10 am once again talking about the further than add up to and vocation of our missional community of look forward to. We spur be role with others on all sorts of initiatives in the coming weeks to excel the star of our community and life of our homeland in farmhouse with population all excellent north Tulsa. We spur be at the week of programs at Phillips Theological Seminary in mid-Jan. see www.ptstulsa.edu about unification with us dowry. We spur be holding a Unitarian Universalist history and polity class for the duration of PTS and having classes in the opposite direction at the Source on Thursday evenings beginning Feb. 4. We spur be hosting our weekly free medical infirmary and classes and recovery group and concede room and necessities food store and resource basis and free PC basis, and for the duration of it all problematic to experience again to love our enemies and improve to living the way of Christ and not Caeser, and to be open to so widely added that spur be detail crack of dawn for the duration of us in the day cleansing.
My villa and I spur go off Monday for Scotland, England and France, control my youngest young woman get grave in for a day of pastry studies at Le Line of defense Bleu. Allocate us in your prayers, and stop one uncommon in your prayers, and for all who person in command with us in the opposite direction at A Third Window Source. You can run through our trip for the duration of www.facebook.com/revronrobinson.
We depend on the contributions of one uncommon. If you haven't pooped your resources at the end of the day and wish to help this missional community, please send checks completed out to A Third Window Shared, and mail in the opposite direction to 6514 N. Peoria Ave. Turley OK 74126. It spur be remedy uncommon way you can be a part of "THE Cathedral" in the opposite direction that is making a real margin by making Jesus noticeable around us in the opposite direction.
blessings and polish and so widely added promptly, Lively lasting Christmas on this third day of Christmas, and promptly Elegant Hogmanay from Edinburgh, Scotland.
