X Y Z

Eucharist means God’s good gift.

We are to be a people who are broken open and poored out so that others may have life.

X – Charity – Church/Family
Y – Opportunity – Local
Z – Development – Globaly

The church is the only organism that exists for the sole benefit of its non members. Its not about us.

If our church disappeared, who would notice? who would care? who would protest?

We are using our gifts to meet the needs of others.

When you are no longer able to help the needy, are you still the church?

Relevance?

How will the world know we are the church, the body of Christ?

 God will hold us accountable for our voice.

Time Bandits

1. There is a cummulative value to investing small amounts of time in a specific activity over a long period of time.

2. Care, as well as neglect, has a cummulative effect.

3. There are rarely any immediate consequences for missing one single installment.

4. There is no cummulative value to the urgent things we allow to interfere with what is most important.

5. There is no making up or saving up time in the critical areas of life.

Imagination of Isaiah

Imagination of Isaiah – Walter Bruggeman

Isaiah 1-39 – greed, corruption, loss, lamentations, no comfort

150 years…

Isaiah 40 – comfort, hope

There is no hope unless you have grieved.

1. Do not fear

2 Challenge the empire (military, consumerism) (Isaiah 46)

3. Depart, leave, break free (Isaiah 52:7)

4. Enjoyment, freedom, worship (Isaiah 55)

Isaiah 56 – How will we rebuild this city? We will be a new city, out of a city that has failed.

*Reconstruction – do justice

1. Membership (Isaiah 56)
Who is in and a part of this rebuilding/mission? 
Let all in: covenant, neighbors; Sabbath

2. Worship (Isaiah 58, Matthew 25)
What is right worship?
Least, Lost, Little, Lowest are equal

3. Economy (Isaiah 61)
Good news to the poor
Jubilee year – cancel debts, return land
You will be strong as oaks – stable, solid, reliable

4. New City (Isaiah 65)
What will it be like? Healthcare, property, business, environment, safety
New Heaven / New Earth / New Jerusalem

Death —> Buried —> Ressurection —> Mission 

LOSS —> GRIEF—> HOPE —> WORK