My heart to you, I offer, Lord,
promptly and sincerely.
John Calvin
(1509–1564)
Inscribed on his personal seal
My heart to you, I offer, Lord,
promptly and sincerely.
John Calvin
(1509–1564)
Inscribed on his personal seal
Thank you Richard Topping, for sharing this. Try new things. Experiment. And rapidly scale what works. Summarized in poem by Mary Oliver:
I did think, let’s go about this slowly.
This is important. This should take
some really deep thought. We should take
small thoughtful steps.
But, bless us, we didn’t.
The Christian Church lasted 1054 years before Rome and Constantinople send excommunication letters to each other – the first major split. 1054 years.
The next official split in the Western Church is often pinned to January 1521, when Martin Luther received his own excommunication letter. This combined with other departures from the Roman Church, including the Lutherans, the Anabaptists, the Reformed, and the Church of England.
Today in Scotland there at least 7 denominations in the Church of Scotland. In South Korea, over 100 Presbyterian denominations.
So like it or not, the Presbyterian Church in Canada comes from a long tradition of church splitting. In fact, we’re experts in the field. In business since at 1521. (And no, don’t use that slogan on your church signs.)
And I see another one coming for the Presbyterian Church in Canada. So here are my points:
I mean, remember, we can always split. That’s easy. And we are good at it. But I really think that time is over, and the PCC needs to think about who we might join or which new churches we might plant.
Sincerely.
I love this shot of the Presbytery of Hamilton at Central on February 9th. Around tables, deep in discussion. This is what Presbyterian Christians do with their Tuesday nights.
I can recommend this Bible for children. Great for parents to read to children and children to read to parents. Tells the story and interprets its meaning as it goes. Really good. The Jesus Storybook Bible
From the publisher’s website:
“The Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner in the religion category, The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the Story beneath all the stories in the Bible. At the center of the Story is a baby, the child upon whom everything will depend. Every story whispers his name. From Noah to Moses to the great King David—every story points to him. He is like the missing piece in a puzzle—the piece that makes all the other pieces fit together. From the Old Testament through the New Testament, as the Story unfolds, children will pick up the clues and piece together the puzzle. A Bible like no other, The Jesus Storybook Bible invites children to join in the greatest of all adventures, to discover for themselves that Jesus is at the center of God’s great story of salvation—and at the center of their Story too.”