We will be discussing Dietrich Bonhoeffer's book Life Together beginning Sunday, April 13th. Please read the "Introduction" and "Chapter One: Community" so that we can have an informed discussion.
April 1, 2014
December 8, 2013
Follow Me: A Call Tp Die. A Call To Live.
Beginning Sunday, January 5th, we will be reading and discussing David Platt's latest book Follow Me: A Call To Die. A Call To Live.
You can find out more about him from his website: http://www.radical.net/about/david_platt.html
There is also a website dedicated to the book: http://www.followmebook.org/
You can find out more about him from his website: http://www.radical.net/about/david_platt.html
There is also a website dedicated to the book: http://www.followmebook.org/
August 17, 2013
Contextualizing the Gospel
Here is an insightful quote defining what it means to contextualize the gospel message:
"Contextualization represents the careful and refined use of a people's cultural forms in order that the truth of the gospel can be correctly expressed in their language through a judicious use of their own thought forms."
Arthur Glasser as cited in Shawn B. Redford, "The Contextualization and Translation of Christianity," in Mission in Acts: Ancient Narratives in Contemporary Context, eds. Robert L. Gallagher and Paul Hertig (Mary Knoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004), 284.
"Contextualization represents the careful and refined use of a people's cultural forms in order that the truth of the gospel can be correctly expressed in their language through a judicious use of their own thought forms."
Arthur Glasser as cited in Shawn B. Redford, "The Contextualization and Translation of Christianity," in Mission in Acts: Ancient Narratives in Contemporary Context, eds. Robert L. Gallagher and Paul Hertig (Mary Knoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004), 284.
April 5, 2013
Please attend class this Sunday, April 7th
Pastor Jeff Daley as well as Elders Bob Knapp and Chuck Porter will be in III Strands this Sunday, April 7th, to answer our questions about the renewed SGC Mission & Vision. Please be sure to attend.
February 17, 2013
The Church in Jerusalem
In case you were curious, here is a bit of church history regarding the earliest Christian community in Jerusalem:
The church began in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2). The earliest Christians were Jewish and they continued to worship in the Temple; however, they also began to gather on the first day of the week (Sunday) to break bread and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. The apostles Peter and John as well as James the brother of Jesus seem to have been the original pillars or leaders of the Jerusalem church (Galatians 2:9; Acts 15). Peter left Jerusalem after he was miraculously freed from imprisonment by Herod Agrripa I (ca. A.D. 43; James the brother of John was beheaded by Herod just prior to Peter's arrest). James the brother of Jesus was executed in A.D. 62 by the order of Ananus the high priest. Shortly after that, and in order to avoid the Jewish rebellion that broke out in A.D. 66 (the Jewish War ended in the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70), the leaders of the church decided to move to Pella in Perea, which was a city on the other side of the Jordan River. At this same time it is likely that John also departed Jerusalem to guide the church in Ephesus. As a result, the ancient Jewish church was increasingly isolated and the main leadership of the church at large had shifted to Gentile Christians.
Source
Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity, Volume One: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation (Revised and Updated). New York: HarperOne, 2010.
The church began in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2). The earliest Christians were Jewish and they continued to worship in the Temple; however, they also began to gather on the first day of the week (Sunday) to break bread and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. The apostles Peter and John as well as James the brother of Jesus seem to have been the original pillars or leaders of the Jerusalem church (Galatians 2:9; Acts 15). Peter left Jerusalem after he was miraculously freed from imprisonment by Herod Agrripa I (ca. A.D. 43; James the brother of John was beheaded by Herod just prior to Peter's arrest). James the brother of Jesus was executed in A.D. 62 by the order of Ananus the high priest. Shortly after that, and in order to avoid the Jewish rebellion that broke out in A.D. 66 (the Jewish War ended in the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70), the leaders of the church decided to move to Pella in Perea, which was a city on the other side of the Jordan River. At this same time it is likely that John also departed Jerusalem to guide the church in Ephesus. As a result, the ancient Jewish church was increasingly isolated and the main leadership of the church at large had shifted to Gentile Christians.
Source
Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity, Volume One: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation (Revised and Updated). New York: HarperOne, 2010.
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