02/19/2017
Acts 16:16-36
Sarah Neff
“For there is the more excellent way of love and nonviolent protest.” –Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
“This illuminates also what O’Connor says about what she thinks makes a story work as a story – ‘some action, some gesture of a character that is unlike any other in the story, one which indicates where the real heart of the story lies… both totally right and totally unexpected…both in character and beyond character; it would have to suggest both time and eternity.’ It would be an act that, theologically, represented our participation in God’s action.” –Rowan Williams, about Catholic author Flannery O’Connor
“The more vital and essential victory of Christianity lay in the strange, impractical, altogether unworldly tenderness of the moral intuitions it succeeded in sowing in human consciences.” –David Bentley Hart
“if testimony were your date for the night, it is everything your mother warned you about.” –Anna Carter Florence
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Bonhoeffer’s Prayer by Wardell/Bonhoeffer
I Saw the Light by Williams
Jesus, What a Beautiful Name by Riches
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing by Wesley/Glaser
How Can I Keep from Singing? by Lowry
Has Thou Heard Him, Seen Him, Known Him? by Rowan/Littlepage
Doxology
Go Further:
Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission by David Fitch
Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture by Makoto Fujimura
Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grace and Necessity: Reflections on Art and Love by Rowan Williams
Preaching as Testimony by Anna Carter Florence
Is It True that “The World Will Be Saved by Beauty”? by Jimmy Meyers
