05/20/2018
John 20:19-23
Chris Breslin
“The convex (outward tilted) of the concave (inward tilted) Resurrection is mission, and the two have to happen almost exactly together, on the same day, because this Great Miracle requires this Great Mission, immediately and urgently.” –F. D. Bruner
“[Isaiah & Jesus] offer a way of liberation through the liberation, healing, and total transformation and empowerment of the least. This is the very best of new to today’s damned, who long for a meaningful vocation.” –Bob Ekblad, Reading the Bible with the Damned
“I say we are sorry. I say they burden of the Bisho massacre will be on our shoulders for the rest of our lives. We cannot wish it away. It happened. But please, I ask specifically the victims not to forget. I cannot ask this, but to forgive us, to get the soldiers back into the community, to accept them fully, to try to understand also the presser they were under then. This is all I can do. I’m sorry, this is I can say, I’m sorry.”
Tutu goes on to write: “That crowd, which had been close to lynching them, did something quite unexpected. It broke out into thunderous applause! Unbelievable! The mood change was startling. The colonel’s colleagues joined him in apologizing and when the applause died down I said:
“Can we just keep a moment’s silence, please, because we are dealing with things that are very, very deep. It isn’t easy, as we all know, to ask for forgiveness and it’s also not easy to forgive, but we are people who know that when someone cannot be forgiven there is no future. If a husband and wife quarrel and they don’t one of them say ‘I am sorry’ and the other says ‘ I forgive,’ the relationship is in jeopardy.” –recounted in Desmond Tutu’s No Future Without Forgiveness
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
You Carried Me by Reagan
Come, Holy Spirit, Come by Hart/Ring
Holy, Holy, Holy by Heber/Dykes
Veni Sancti Spiritus by Berthier
Breathe On Me by Hatch/Gray
Have Mercy On Me by Gungor/Phillips
Doxology
Pentecost/Holy Spirit Reading:
On the Holy Spiritby St. Basil the Great
Spiritual Theologyby Simon Chan
God, Sexuality, and the Selfby Sarah Coakley
Paul, the Spirit, and the People of Godby Gordon Fee
Presence, Power, & Promise: The Role of the Spirit of God in the Old Testamented. Firth & Wegner
Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Humanby Steven Guthrie
The Holy Spirit: Hand-raisers, Han, and the Holy Ghost(Homebrewed Christianity) by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Pneumatologyby Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Lifeby Jack Levison
Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spiritby Clark Pinnock
After the Spiritby Eugene Rogers
Thinking in Tonguesby James K.A. Smith
Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testamentby Christopher J. H Wright
The Spirit Poured Our on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theologyby Amos Yong
Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighborby Amos Yong
The Missiological Spirit: Christian Mission Theology in the Third Millennium GlobalContextby Amos Yong
Who is the Holy Spirit?: A Walk with the Apostlesby Amos Yong
