Sacred Roots Workshop

164 Sacred Roots Workshop: Retr ieving the Great Tradi t ion in the Contemporary Church

3. God’s Sabbath is enjoyed and celebrated here, freedom, wholeness, and the justice of God, Heb. 4.3-10.

4. The benefits of the Year of Jubilee have come to the people of God: forgiveness, renewal, and restitution, Col. 1.13; Matt. 6.33; Eph. 1.3; 2 Pet. 1.3-4.

5. The Spirit ( arrabon ) indwells us: God lives here and walks among us here, 2 Cor. 1.20.

6. We taste the powers of the Age to Come: Satan is bound in our midst, the Curse has been broken here, deliverance is experienced in Jesus’ name, Gal. 3.10-14.

7. We experience the shalom of God’s eternal kingdom: the freedom, wholeness, and justice of the new order are present here, Rom. 5.1.

8. We herald the Good News of God’s reign ( evangelion ): we invite all to join us as we journey to the full manifestation of the Age to Come, Mark 1.14-15.

9. Here we cry Maranatha !: our lives are structured by the living hope of God's future and the consummation, Rev. 22.17-21.

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Liturgy in the Church Recites and Re-enacts Christ’s Victory!

The Christian community gathers to remember and to enact its particular identity as those called out by God in Christ. Because all ministries are rooted in the redemptive presence and activity of Christ in the world, the church’s sense of time and place is oriented toward God’s self-giving in the whole person and work of Jesus Christ. Christian worship involves the gathering of a baptized people who are commissioned and empowered to serve the world. Such servanthood does not take place unless the church remembers with