First Formation: Spiritual exercise for rank & file believers
Grunt Works
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1 week ago
First Formation is spiritual exercise for rank and file believers looking to get up and pray. Listen to hear the good news through grunts and with grunts, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, as one Church forever and ever. Fall In!
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First Formation is spiritual exercise for rank and file believers looking to get up and pray. Listen to hear the good news through grunts and with grunts, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, as one Church forever and ever. Fall In!
First Formation: Spiritual exercise for rank & file believers
23 minutes
1 week ago
😇 Xmas 2
Readings: 📜Jeremiah 31:7-14 ; 🎶Psalm 147:12-20; 📜Ephesians 1:3-14; 📜John 1:1-18. For full access, go to pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-x02.
In this episode, I wrestle with the growing tension I feel between Pauline Christianity and the Jesus I encounter in the Gospels. The Christmas readings this week force me to confront my discomfort with Paul's privileged position and philosophical approach versus Christ's radical accessibility to the poor and marginalized. I'm arguing that if we must choose between Paul's epistles and the Hebrew scriptures, I'd choose the latter—not to reject Paul entirely, but to prioritize the Christ of the Gospels and the story he fulfills over the institutional church-building project I see in Paul's letters.
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First Formation: Spiritual exercise for rank & file believers
First Formation is spiritual exercise for rank and file believers looking to get up and pray. Listen to hear the good news through grunts and with grunts, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, as one Church forever and ever. Fall In!
