CQOD: 12/01/07 -- Bronnert: the explainable fellowship

Christian Quotation of the Day

December 1, 2007

Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916

Meditation:
    I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep these instructions without partiality, and to do nothing out of favoritism.
    -- 1 Timothy 5:21 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Race highlights the fact that in our congregational life we usually do not reflect the variety of cultures. There are Asian, West Indian, and Anglo-Saxon congregations worshiping and meeting close to each other. These groups meet at work and in school, but not always in church. If the church is middle-class and intellectual in the language of the services, in the music employed, in the life-style expected of Christians, in its leadership, and in the methods of presenting the gospel, then the whole atmosphere is such as to repel those who are not middle-class and intellectual. They feel out of place and unwanted, even if they are given a friendly greeting at the door. The life of the New Testament Church was evidence of the supernatural; God was in their midst. The power of Christ was a reality. The fellowship could not be explained in simple natural terms. A church divided on social and racial lines is not evidence for the supernatural, but for the simply human and social.
    ... David Bronnert, “The Gospel and Culture” in The Changing World

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, free Your church from all bias and prejudice.

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See Believer's Desktop Companion 2007
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