tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808375493800890797.post9070945749290877124..comments2024-03-18T15:28:13.866-04:00Comments on A Concord Pastor Comments: Prayer for After the ElectionConcord Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18322127779647130869noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808375493800890797.post-88961015223187099742008-11-06T15:23:00.000-05:002008-11-06T15:23:00.000-05:00I would submit that "community organizer" is actua...I would submit that "community organizer" is actually a misnomer: helping people overcome some of the injustices they have had to endure such as unfair wages, substandard living conditions, poor conduct of the justice system seems to me to be quite in opposition to the established (and organized)system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808375493800890797.post-23875635797212506682008-11-05T17:34:00.000-05:002008-11-05T17:34:00.000-05:00Was Jesus a "community organizer?"Well, certainly ...Was Jesus a "community organizer?"<BR/><BR/>Well, certainly not in the sense we understand that term in our own times.<BR/><BR/>In some ways, Jesus was more a community dis-organizer, upsetting the apple carts of the temple and the local government. <BR/><BR/>A good amount of serious debate goes on as to whether or not Jesus intended to found a church, in the sense that we have come to understand that. One would need to search hard and long to find in Jesus' teaching and deeds an intention for establishing an institution like the one we belong to.<BR/><BR/>That's not to say that somehow the Church is not the mind of Jesus or that it's discontinuous with Jesus' mission. It does mean that we must always submit the reality of the institutional church to the sober scrutiny of Jesus' gospel and ministry.Concord Pastorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18322127779647130869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808375493800890797.post-29229786148466088262008-11-05T17:27:00.000-05:002008-11-05T17:27:00.000-05:00Jesus was a community organizer! Amen!Jesus was a community organizer! Amen!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808375493800890797.post-69127093790298023112008-11-05T10:53:00.000-05:002008-11-05T10:53:00.000-05:00Let the church say....AMEN!!!!!AnneLet the church say....AMEN!!!!!<BR/><BR/>AnneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808375493800890797.post-35091454443958638222008-11-05T06:29:00.000-05:002008-11-05T06:29:00.000-05:00AMenAMenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com