The Sovereign Love of God

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Weekly Reflection on the Sovereign Love of God This mystical concept of the church is rooted in the holistic conception of reality that the early Christians inherited from the Old Testament. Like the Jews, the early Christians did not function with the dualistic distinctions between spirit andmatter, secular and sacred. They believed in the coinherence of the spiritual and the material, not in such a way that there is a side-by-side conjunction, but through a real union that did not destroy the identity of each property. This incarnational theology, the union of the divine and the human, regulated the early Christian perception of the church. It affirmed the church as the divine and visible body of Christ — in whom Christ is mystically present. Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father and really present in the world through the church. ~ Robert E. Webber and David Neff. Common Roots: The Original Call to an Ancient-Future Faith . Electronic edition. Loc. 1208.

Let God Arise! Seasonal Focus The Spirit Is Here , Acts 2.1-21

Book Reading Webber, Common Roots

Our Corporate Disciplines Concert of Prayer: Tuesday, May 4, 2021