Hey Everyone,
So here it is the beginning of our conversation.
I am glad you are here and a part. There is a lot going on in our little council of ministers and many of them we'll be talking about in the days ahead. I hope you get and read A Failure of Nerve it is a book that has changed the way I look at leadership and the world in someways. I'll have a lot more to say about it in the future but if its arrival on your door step is what brought you here, Enjoy! If you don't know, most everyone on the council of ministers has received a copy of the book or has access to one. If you're not a minister I encourage you to go get it if you are at all interested in leadership in our world. I'll have more to say about this in the future.
I am sitting here in Las Vegas, an auspicious place to start this chat, but I sit here with most of the General Council of the church. This meeting came out of the feedback from convention about what the delegates want and need out from their denomination and they've decided it is high time we respond, and I couldn't agree more. The work is very fledgling but will look at some radical ways of organizing to get those needs met. I like it. I like it a lot.
We have to begin re-visioning this thing we call church. We have to begin to respond to the world in which we live and love. I know we want to, I know we are trying, I know it is what God is calling us toward in this world. It is auspicious to begin this blog on this day, because this blog is in large part meant to encourage you; encouraging you to revision your ministries whether you're an ordained minister or not, encouraging you in the world to bring heaven and to bring God with you where you go wherever that place may be.
OK I got a lot more to say and I hope YOU have a lot more to say, give me a post, let me know how you are, link me to some place nice, and may God's Blessing be with you.
A Swedenborgian Weblog from the Chair of the Council of Ministers
Rev. Andy Stinson
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Revelation 19
I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and He that sat upon him was called faithful and true, and in justice He doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire; and upon His head were many diadems; and He hath a name written that no one knew but He Himself. And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood; and His name is called the Word of God. And the armies which were in the heavens followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen white and clean.
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Hello to Andy and the rest of our community. This is a good idea and I pray that we all feel the freedom to express our thoughts and share our experiences.
I just arrived home from our annual family ski trip to Colorado and I spent some wonderful mountain time with Richard Rohr's newest book Things Hidden - Scripture as Spirituality. For me this book exemplifies the descending of the Holy City - catch this quote, "...the biblical text also mirrors the nature of human consciousness itself." Sound familiar?
And "We can call the prophets almost the fathers and mothers of consciousness, because until you move to self-reflective, self-critical thinking, you don't move to any deep level of consciousness at all." Rohr speaks about the stages of our spiritual journey as illuminated in the scripture.
And now I arrived home to find Andy's book from Friedman and I can't wait to dig into it - Thanks, Jane
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