02/03/2019
Luke 4:21-30
John Chandler
John Chandler is the Marketing and Communications Director for Help One Now, an NGO which empowers families in developing countries through high-capacity local leaders with proven solutions to end extreme poverty. John is the founding pastor of Ecclesia Networkchurch, Austin Mustard Seed, and hosted equipping resource, SermonSmith, a podcast about the craft of sermon preparation. He and his family now reside in Gilbert, AZ.
“Shalom is communal, holistic, and tangible. There is no private or partial shalom. The whole community must have shalom or no one has shalom. As long as there are hungry people in a community that is well fed, there can be no shalom. Where there are homeless and jobless people amidst the employed and wealthy, shalom cannot exist. Shalom is not for the many, while a few suffer; nor is it for the few while many suffer. It must be available for everyone.” -Randy Woodley, Shalom and the Community of Creation
“To be chosen, to be elect, therefore does not mean that the elect are the saved and the rest are the lost. To be elect in Christ Jesus, and there is no other election, means to be incorporated into his mission to the world, to be the bearer of God’s saving purpose for his whole world, to be the sign and the agent and the firstfruit of his blessed kingdom which is for all.” -Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
Season Resources:
Joy is for Epiphany, tooby Miroslav Volf (Christian Century)
Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of Godby Bobby Gross
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Prepare the Way of the Lord by DaPonte
Come Ye Sinners by Hart/DeConto
God With Us by Ingram/Jordan
Let Them Praise the Name of the Lord by Harris/Crawford
More Than Anything by Jordan/Leonard/Garrard/Ingram
I Shall Not Want by Assad/Brown
Doxology
