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welcome to the commons cast we're glad

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to have you here we hope you find

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something meaningful in our teaching

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this week head to commons dot church for

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more information

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today we are logging back into this

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conversation that we are having about

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the holy spirit

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which if we're honest is really just an

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exploration of what we mean

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of what we say when we're talking about

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god

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as jeremy referenced in week one a

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christian imagination sees god as

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trinity as a divine community as an

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endless dance of gift

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and reception father son spirit source

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savior and storyteller and christians

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have formed these images because of what

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we see in scripture of who god is and

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how god acts and what god says showing

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us that imagination just might be the

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most significant spiritual practice that

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we have at our disposal i mean think

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about it this way the scriptures present

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the divine through a series of striking

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literary forms but those are forms that

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the church continues to journey with and

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grapple with

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and create with as we compose new and

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brilliant words and songs and art and

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justice to make the world better

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which

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is just another way of acknowledging

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that the title of this series forgotten

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god it's a reminder to not neglect

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our imagination of god

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to not push the idea of a creative and

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sustaining force behind all things into

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the background of our lives

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to never stop picturing god or

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conceiving god

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because the holy spirit is a kind of

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muse for the art of living that we

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compose each and every day i think

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i have loved the practical ways that

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this series has stretched my thinking so

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far in

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part because i found it really helpful

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to think of faith less as a noun

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less like a briefcase that i carry

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because i mean let's be honest nobody

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carries briefcases anymore right the

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point is is that i like imagining faith

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as something that i do

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like art like

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intimacy

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all of these practices that require and

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develop transformation in me

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as i do them and i have loved thinking

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about the holy spirit how this idea has

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these practical implications for

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this work and i'm still

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bawling over this idea from last week

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that to find and to listen to the most

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gentle voice i can hear

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there under all of the noise and all of

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the chaos and all of the criticism

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to hear that gentle voice is to hear the

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same spirit that stirred over and

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through and out of the cosmos before all

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to hear that voice is to hear the sound

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of easter morning which coincidentally

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is the same sound we all make when we

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wake up

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as we take a breath in

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and we breathe it out

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to hear that voice is to encounter the

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divine in all of its wondrous mystery

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and today we are going to take another

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tentative step down this road of

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encounter together and as we do i'm

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gonna invite you for just a moment here

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to send ourselves

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let's pray together now

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god of all

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all creation that flourishes

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and of the universe that continues to

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all of our human experience and our

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memory and our hoped four days

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all of our energy and our breath and

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each heartbeat ringing now

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we pause

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attention from

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all that aches

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and all the distracts and from all the

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things that we bring with us we carry

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and we turn in whatever way we can

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toward you

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asking that you would help us in the

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mystery of grace to be holy here

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and to be truly with each other

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to turn our eyes with kindness to your

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presence that we can see in those around

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maybe we can feel in our fragile hearts

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we pray that you give us strength to

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receive

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the grace of

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shared welcome and warmth

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your spirit leading us now even as we

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take up ancient words trusting that ever

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and always you make them new

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we pray this in the name of christ

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okay so today

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we're going to dive into a little bit

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this idea of spirit and community and to

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do that we need to talk through

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imminence and real time and what seems

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because in part what we're going to do

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is wade through a well-established

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theological relationship between the

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ideas we have about the holy spirit and

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our ideas of the church

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see the christian scriptures offer a

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clear picture of how jesus's earliest

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friends and followers drew a direct

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connection between the idea of god as

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spirit and their identity as a community

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pulled together and animated by the

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spirit

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and when we look at the book of acts

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which we're going to spend some time in

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we see the earliest christians forming

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communities around the message of jesus

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and this is a message that they told

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again and again in personal accounts of

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transformation

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examples like peter and paul and

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uh stephen that's the other one that i

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point is this

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is that i don't think it's right for us

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to talk about spirit without telling

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stories

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and seeing as i'm in the spot today i

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guess it's my turn right

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see because like jeremy my earliest

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faith was shaped by a tradition of

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christian practice and spirituality that

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hadn't forgotten god as spirit in fact

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spirit was their main selling point my

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earliest imagination of god was shaped

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by pentecostal christians and

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communities that talked about the book

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of acts as though it was still

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and i experienced this dynamism in the

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socioeconomic and cultural diversity of

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the churches that i was taken to

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i experienced it in the authentic

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emotive liturgy that was for the most

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part more genuine than coercive

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where sorrow and joy alike were led out

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into the world as part of communal life

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sometimes people would cry openly

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celebration

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and all the time the spirit was

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regularly referred to as the source of

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and this left many including me feeling

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like i belonged to something that seemed

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spontaneously alive and growing and

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accessible to everybody

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and you know what to this day i'm still

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okay with most of that

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because i've come to see how it formed a

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strong sense in me of what theologians

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refer to as divine imminence

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this sense

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that while god is transcendent beyond us

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as creator and other and source of all

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god is also around

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and mysteriously present

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maybe god is good

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jump ahead to my early 20s where as an

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carrying all my angst and my questions

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alongside of these religious memories

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and i found myself standing in a small

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monastery chapel on a greek island

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listening to two orthodox monks seeing

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the vespers service in a language

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that i couldn't understand

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and late afternoon light is waning and

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incense is billowing and filling the air

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and i could feel that same

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imminent presence

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from my childhood

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cadence and their melody aware that

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somehow i belonged there even though i

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clearly didn't

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feeling something unfamiliar and yet

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somehow commonly held in the shaping of

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sacred space and time

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and that's just a snapshot of how i've

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sensed the spirit in these kind of

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imminent moments

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and christian tradition teaches us all

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that regardless of how connected we feel

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to this tradition

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it's so important to look for and name

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our own moments like this because

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individual experiences have always been

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vital to the story of faith perhaps

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and even most especially if you have had

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different experiences than me

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because some of us sense the spirit in

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quiet reverence

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some of us in emotive and an expressive

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liturgy

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some of us find it in the plural

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pronouns of the creeds that invite us to

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say even when we don't know we can

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and i'm not so sure that these kinds of

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experiences are exclusive to our

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religious community encounters because i

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think that probably here today there are

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some of us who have sensed spirit in the

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shared work of a justice cause

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or a local community council that might

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be dysfunctional but it gets the job

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or in a neighborhood gardening project

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some of us in the playful laughter of

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our closest friends

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are in their holding of our deepest

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sorrow

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because i really do think that divine

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is refound in and through

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the spirit at work and all the moments

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and places and places that we choose

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each other

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people have noted this communal aspect

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of human experience

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renowned social theorist emil durkheim

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is just one of them he coins this term

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collective effervescence to describe the

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kind of enchanting encounters that he

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observed in rural tribal groups that he

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studied and that term has actually been

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applied to all kinds of other groups

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in a recent new york times article

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psychologist adam grant suggested that

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these kinds of effervescent experiences

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where we feel like we're syncing with a

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group of people

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just think like live performances or

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sporting events or celebratory

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gatherings like convocations and

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but this is what we've been missing out

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on these past two years with social

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distance restrictions in play because

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that sense of being connected with

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others isn't something that you can get

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by binging episodes that are trending

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now

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or watching a video that has 34 million

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views or even talking about bruno which

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anybody else in the room watched in

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kanto six times in the last week anyways

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here we go grant suggests

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that we are at a loss

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because of the way that groups can

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impact our emotions sometimes for the

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better

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exemplified in such facts as you being

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five times more likely to laugh with

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other people than by yourself

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and that might all be true

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but it's not really what i'm getting at

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because i'm not suggesting that every

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group we're part of makes room for

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spirit

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or helps us to be aware of the spirit's

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nearness i'm more intrigued today by how

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the christian theology of spirit might

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help us in the work of community

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i'm curious how practical this theology

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can be and to find some hints i want to

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look quickly at a couple stories from

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the book of acts because that whole book

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focuses on how the spirit sparked and

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sustained the early christian

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communities

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okay so the first story is in acts 10.

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and here we see the apostle peter who is

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one of jesus's most faithful followers

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we see him on the mediterranean coast

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he's chilling for a few days i guess and

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he has this dreamlike vision while he's

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napping on the roof one day

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where he sees a sheet descend from

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heaven

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and it's holding a bunch of animals that

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were considered impure and unfit to eat

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by jewish dietary standards

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and in this trance he's having he hears

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a divine voice tell him to get up and to

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eat one of these animals which

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he adamantly refuses because he is an

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observant jew

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but this voice speaks to him again do

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not call anything impure

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that god has made clean

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and the vision ends

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and then we jump into the story ahead to

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the next day we find peter in the house

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of a gentile somebody who isn't jewish a

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roman centurion named cornelius and he's

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there with his family and his servants

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and we learn that cornelius is aware of

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the jewish god that he's devout and

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faithful in his religious observance and

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i love it because as peter and cornelius

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start talking peter is clearly still

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working through

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this weird vision that he had the day

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before

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because he tells the group he says look

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you guys are probably aware that jewish

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law doesn't really allow me to be here

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and visit with you which is super

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awkward right telling your friends that

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you're not supposed to be there but then

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he says this he says but god has shown

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me that i shouldn't call anyone impure

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or unclean

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and then a little later

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after learning some more of cornelius's

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story he continues he says this i now

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realize how true it is that god does not

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show favoritism

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but accepts from every nation the one

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who fears god and does what is right

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there's a couple interesting things here

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first the greek noun that describes god

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as not picking favorites

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prosopolemtes besides being a great

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tongue twister it's built on the noun

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prosopa which refers to the masks

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that actors wore in ancient greco-roman

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theater performances

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and by using this word peter's making

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this profound observation for him

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and for us

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that the divine doesn't play favorites

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with the masks of socioeconomic status

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or hierarchy or power that we don during

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our day to day

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god doesn't play favorites with the

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masks of culture or gender or purity

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that are imposed on our bodies

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and others as well

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the second thing to note here too though

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is that peter seems to be coming to

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these conclusions

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in the moment

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these shifts of perspective happening

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with a kind of surreal slow motion pan

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across the room because yeah he had had

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a vision

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but now he's standing in the room

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with real gentiles

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and he's trading stories of god's

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goodness with those that he had always

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been taught to avoid those he assumed

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were outsiders

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and the text tells us that while he's

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still talking to them the spirit comes

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upon everybody in the house

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jews and gentiles alike swept up in this

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ecstatic communal experience of grace

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that's so profound that peter

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immediately baptizes cornelius and the

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entire house

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and the tremors of this boundary lifting

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event

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shot out

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into the early christian community and

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we're going to talk more about that in a

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second

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because before we move on i want to say

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that i think there's something here for

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every single one of us who's ever

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changed our minds when we realized that

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an idea or a system was impacting some

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other people

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those of us who have ever moved like

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peter from one position to another

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sometimes

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at greater cost than we thought we would

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have to pay

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some of us who have found our

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perspective shifting as we learn and we

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really start to see the raw humanity of

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another person or another group

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and that's this realization that the

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voice

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inviting you

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to open your heart in forgiveness or in

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acceptance

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that little intuition you sometimes have

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that keeps you curious about another

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person's experience underneath their

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mask that they try to keep on

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that quiet whisper that nudges you

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for your own good or someone else's

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it nudges you from opinions or from

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boundaries that used to feel so

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non-negotiable

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that voice

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is always the spirit

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teaching you to trust in real time

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embodied experiences that are moving you

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towards god's best

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now

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to be clear these boundary bending

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events in acts 10 and in our lives they

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those ones are next hands they were

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really hard for early christian

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communities because many of them were

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trying to form across this ethnic divide

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of gentiles and jews across the

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separations of social rank and status

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and as we move in the story ahead five

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chapters in acts 15 we get this curious

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look

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at how they did this work

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at this point in the story some time has

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passed since peter has been in cornelius

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house

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and in the intervening period the

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apostle paul has come on to the scene

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paul who was a defender and a teacher of

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the jewish law

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he had become a follower of jesus

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through a series of startling events but

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because he had been pretty mean to early

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christians he kind of had to go quiet go

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off grid for a while only to emerge more

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than a decade later

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with a bunch of ideas about jesus

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and the desire to tell the gentile world

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about them

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which is what him and his associates

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start to do and eventually they go to

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jerusalem to share what's been happening

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in the christian communities across the

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mediterranean and unsurprisingly

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there's some diversity in the community

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and not everybody agrees with his method

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and his message

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in fact some of the early christians who

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were also pharisees really buckled down

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on this idea that male gentile converts

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had to be circumcised like all observant

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jews they had to obey jewish law in all

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of its entirety in order to join

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christian churches

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so

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the apostles and the elders they have

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this meeting

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they hear from and they listen to many

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individuals

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they have an extended discussion the

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text says which i think just means it

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went far too long

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and james says this james is jesus's

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brother he's the leader of the jerusalem

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church he stands up at the end of this

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gathering and he says

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it is my judgment therefore

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that we should not make it difficult

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for gentiles who are turning to god

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let's write a letter he goes on that can

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be distributed to all kinds of places

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and so that's what they do they write to

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the gentile believers in antioch syria

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and silesia

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it seemed good to the holy spirit and to

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us not to burden you with anything

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beyond the following requirements

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you are to abstain from food sacrifice

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to idols from blood from the meat of

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strangled animals

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and from sexual immorality you will do

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well to avoid these things

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farewell it's very it's very formal

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unless i sort of chuckle because this

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seems like such a random list right

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these instructions just sort of cobbled

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together but here's the deal you may not

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be able to see this but these

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instructions are basic in that they

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encourage gentile believers to stay away

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from the rituals of civic in imperial

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temples

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practices that often reinforced strict

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social role descriptions

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and exploitative power dynamics

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which were things that didn't align with

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how jesus's followers were attempting to

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build community across the divides of

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ethnicity and across the divides of

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gender and across the divides of status

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which is great but i want to focus in on

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that interesting line it seemed good

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to the holy spirit and to us because

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that seems a little haphazard right

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like these are major decisions that

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shape the christian story and it sounds

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like ax is saying that the church

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expanded because of a boardroom decision

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where a bunch of guys just sort of

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rolled the dice and went with their gut

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except i don't know if that's how we

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should read it

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what's

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curious is that the greek verb

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which is translated here as it seemed

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good

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it has all these other adjacent meanings

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things like to think or to suppose or my

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favorite

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to imagine

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and taken that way it's easy for me to

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see what the author of acts was going

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for here

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it's easier for me to get my head around

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their theology of the holy spirit

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because this is actually a lovely

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practical theology

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for how the spirit shapes

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good community

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spirit shapes it through people

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committed to working through

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complex issues

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people committed to hearing one

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another's perspective people building a

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healthy sense of consensus

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people who are committed to not making

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things difficult

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for each other

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and you know what

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the thing i love most

579
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that it's so easy to forget that this

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decision and this language that they

581
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come up with it came after years

582
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years of cultivating distance or

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difference

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it came after years of listening to each

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other it came after years of coming to

586
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the same table years of allowing

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christians of different stripes to tell

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their stories

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shaping a theology that believed the

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spirit was the spark of social change

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that jesus had dreamed of but then also

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a theology that trusted the spirit as

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the source

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of the holy patience they needed for

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themselves

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and for others

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because real change is hard

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and it seems so

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long in coming

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and in that light

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their open and creative language of it

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seemed to us isn't casual at all

603
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it's not arrived at without grit and

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tenacity

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instead we can see it as the product of

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a group that had let go of faith as a

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thing to be owned and possessed and

608
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wielded a community that had accepted

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truth as something to be found

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over and over again

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together

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spirit as their

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guide spirit

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as our

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guide to

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as you

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make us better

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by humbly sharing your story

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and pursuing your wisdom and naming what

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you see

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as you listen with

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radical bravery and generosity at times

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joining together in our desire here at

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commons to become a community that

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offers more diverse voices in more

626
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diverse places

627
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and as we welcome

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and we embrace each other here and in a

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bunch of spaces in this community making

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connection

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less difficult for those left out

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labeled different

633
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or overlooked

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imagining

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with all of the creativity we can muster

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a way toward life

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that seems good

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let us pray

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loving god

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perhaps in this moment we're

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so to find ourselves with images that

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come to mind of the life that we lead

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the ways in which you

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have stepped close to us in the presence

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of meaningful connection

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your great imminent presence in the

647
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world an adjoining

648
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sort of knock on the door of our life

649
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day after day in good friendships and

650
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meaningful connections and intimacy

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and today we want to name that we also

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want to name our for some of us the

653
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great longing we have for that

654
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we ask that you give us courage to live

655
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in the world as we seek it

656
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we thank you too for the gift of

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community that helps us to see

658
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and rediscover your presence

659
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day after day week after week and we ask

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that you would give us courage to trust

661
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the way that you always change our lives

662
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in real time

663
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with people who are different

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with people who ask and call us towards

665
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difference

666
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where ideas and convictions that can

667
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seem so hard

668
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and we hold them so tightly

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with those things fade and loosen in the

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light of grace that invites us into

671
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newness and to flourishing

672
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and we pray too would you guide us

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as we commit ourselves to doing what we

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feel is best

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with your tender presence guiding us

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in the name of christ

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we pray

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amen

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you