Love the stylized front cover graphics (and those inside the cover as well). However, this is not the only point of communication today.
For oh so long many of us who are called laity have wondered at denominational rules about communion-serving, even baptism-applying and more. Rules made up by denominations are not found in scripture at all. Here we have heard from those seeing what we have been seeing for years … the need to exercise the priesthood of all believers (in Christ). It isn’t a big stretch to see that many are Holy Spirit-abled to lead and serve with Holy Spirit-given gifts, given for the good of all. Even without the rules of multi-degrees, without Word and Sacrament titles applied.
Imagine Christ equipping his priests to serve in all the needed ways.
Thank you to David Webber and the report on New Zealand’s rural church; for Calvin Brown’s comments for Lay Missionaries and Roland DeVries on “Our” Church. We also loved the story called The Piano by Harold McNabb. (A wonderful no coincidence-at-all story of Jesus’ Spirit at work across the land.)
Thanks for publishing these encouraging, forward looking, hopeful and needful articles.
Go PCC … open the doors and windows to fresh Holy Spirit winds and let God out of the proverbial box that we try so hard to maintain with our many denominational rules.
Letting God be God seems the best idea.
