Category Archives: who are we?

Insight: Spiritual Formation via Issler’s Wasting Time With God

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Laura

Neighborly love is a love of hospitality to others and is a broad, catchall category of love, which includes (a) those for whom there may be a limited expectation of return for favors, but much less than with close friends … Continue reading →

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Neighborhood: Built by Love and Shared in Worship

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Laura

In the previous post in this series, I thought through three concepts underlying a network of neighborhoods and arrived at provisional definitions of each concept: Neighborhood: a love-formed relational space, usually composed of persons in physical proximity Value of Ordinary … Continue reading →

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Insight: Christology

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Laura

This Christological concept [that Jesus is the center of all truth] signifies that the very heart of reality is personal, rational, and knowable and that all other knowledge takes on proper perspective through relationship to Christ. Michael L. Peterson, With … Continue reading →

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Accidental Ecclesiology

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Laura

Accident: A circumstance or attribute that is not essential to the nature of something. Over the past week or so, I’ve unpacked three properties of essential ecclesiology: whatness, whoness, and whyness.  Beginning next week, I turn to three properties of … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Essential Ecclesiology: Whyness

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Laura

Continuing my unpacking of the essential properties (whatness, whoness, and whyness) of the Church from within my ecclesiological perspective, I move on to whyness. The purpose of the church.  We expand the kingdom of God.  This kingdom is the spiritual … Continue reading →

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