Disestablishment
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Decentralization
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Demographics
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Gathering in Community
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How do we gather without the explicit approval of our society?
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What does gathering look like in a scattered world?
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How do we gather in a racially ethnically and economically diverse world?
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Confession and Forgiveness
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How do we confess and forgive in a disestablishment world?
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How do we confess and forgive in this decentralized world?
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What especially needs to be confessed and forgiven in these new demographic realities?
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Baptism
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What parts of our baptismal identity shine through differently in a disestablished church?
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How can we be centered in our Child of God-ness in a decentralized world?
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As racial and economic identity shifts in our society how do we affirm our baptismal identity—in what ways does it shift or stay the same?
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Word of God
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What themes in scripture draw attention to themselves when read from outside the cultural mainstream?
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How may the Word of God be preached and trusted in a decentralized world?
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How do we hear and respond to the Word of God differently when we are ethnically and economically different than we were a generation ago?
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Thanksgiving
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For what aspects of disestablishment ought we give thanks?
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What new ways can we give thanks when everything is decentered?
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What methods of thanksgiving are found in non-Eurocentric cultures?
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Meal
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In what ways have we wed Holy Communion to the powers that be in our society?
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Where do we have the holy meal in light of decentralization?
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What aspects of Holy Communion can be expressed differently for a wider variety of cultural contexts?
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Sending
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Who have we neglected to go to in order to impress the powers that be?
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Where and how are we sent when we’re already dispersed?
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How are we sent differently to the new demographics in which we live?
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
The Grid
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