Comments for Jubilee Mennonite Church http://www.jubileemennonite.org Let our family be your family! Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:54:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Lord, Help Me not be a Goat! by Dan Stokes http://www.jubileemennonite.org/sermons-other-writing/lord-help-me-not-be-a-goat/#comment-1982 Dan Stokes Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:54:03 +0000 http://www.jubileemennonite.org/#comment-1982 This wonderful setting of Matthew 25 will be part of our Middle School choir retreat this evening. You ministry extends farther than you realize ! with gratitude Dan Stokes, Christ Church United Methodist, Louisville, KY This wonderful setting of Matthew 25 will be part of our Middle School choir retreat this evening. You ministry extends farther than you realize !
with gratitude
Dan Stokes, Christ Church United Methodist, Louisville, KY

]]> Comment on How We Vote by Becky Glover http://www.jubileemennonite.org/sermons-other-writing/how-we-vote/#comment-851 Becky Glover Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:03:05 +0000 http://www.jubileemennonite.org/#comment-851 This 2007 writing, by Mike Clymer, very eloquently expresses my thoughts and beliefs on the subject of voting. I consider the simple, yet hugely consequential, act of voting to be one of the many ways in which the Christ I strive to follow compels me to be involved in the world. I also believe there are other actions related to voting that, for me, are (or ought to be) directed by my Christ: 1.) I'm compelled to educate myself before I vote for a person or an issue; 2.) after I vote, I need to either begin or maintain a relationship with the person(s) elected, whether I voted for them or not; 3.) I need to repect the office/position even when it is occupied by someone other than my candidate (obviously, this goes for any laws or policies I disagree with too); 4.) I'm obligated to interact, get involved; 5.) . . . of equal importance to my interaction/involvement, is the way I interact or get involved - the best way I know to do this is by being (what I consider) a true friend . . . someone who directly, yet respectfully expresses his/her truth. This is where I sometimes struggle or fail altogether, not because I don't express my truth . . . directness is my strong point. When my truth is expressed directly, but not coupled with sufficient respect, my effectiveness is lost and I run the risk of losing even more . . . a relationship. Relationships are sometimes tricky to build. Relationships are messy and gray and muddy and rewarding and frustrating and time consuming and important and vunerable and necessary. For me, the question is not: should I be involved, but: how? And that question of: how - is an even longer thread whose fibers consist of: when, why, with whom, and, yes, at least one more: how. You're so right, Mike, we're constantly voting, but not always conciously voting. We are in this . . . in relationships . . . in life . . . for reconciliation . . . with Him, with and for our own soul, and with and for all others. This 2007 writing, by Mike Clymer, very eloquently expresses my thoughts and beliefs on the subject of voting. I consider the simple, yet hugely consequential, act of voting to be one of the many ways in which the Christ I strive to follow compels me to be involved in the world. I also believe there are other actions related to voting that, for me, are (or ought to be) directed by my Christ:
1.) I’m compelled to educate myself before I vote for a person or an issue;
2.) after I vote, I need to either begin or maintain a relationship with the person(s) elected, whether I voted for them or not;
3.) I need to repect the office/position even when it is occupied by someone other than my candidate (obviously, this goes for any laws or policies I disagree with too);
4.) I’m obligated to interact, get involved;
5.) . . . of equal importance to my interaction/involvement, is the way I interact or get involved – the best way I know to do this is by being (what I consider) a true friend . . . someone who directly, yet respectfully expresses his/her truth. This is where I sometimes struggle or fail altogether, not because I don’t express my truth . . . directness is my strong point. When my truth is expressed directly, but not coupled with sufficient respect, my effectiveness is lost and I run the risk of losing even more . . . a relationship. Relationships are sometimes tricky to build. Relationships are messy and gray and muddy and rewarding and frustrating and time consuming and important and vunerable and necessary.

For me, the question is not: should I be involved, but: how? And that question of: how – is an even longer thread whose fibers consist of: when, why, with whom, and, yes, at least one more: how.

You’re so right, Mike, we’re constantly voting, but not always conciously voting. We are in this . . . in relationships . . . in life . . . for reconciliation . . . with Him, with and for our own soul, and with and for all others.

]]> Comment on Our Beliefs by Luther D. Burton Jr. http://www.jubileemennonite.org/our-beliefs/#comment-749 Luther D. Burton Jr. Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:27:57 +0000 http://www.jubileemennonite.org/#comment-749 Just reading your "Beliefs" was so refreshing and has revived the hunger within me to serve the Lord with all my heart and to spread the "Good News"of Christ Jesus with all who will listen.I pray God's blessing on your ministry,members and all who hunger and thirst after rightousness. Just reading your “Beliefs” was so refreshing and has revived the hunger within me to serve the Lord with all my heart and to spread the “Good News”of Christ Jesus with all who will listen.I pray God’s blessing on your ministry,members and all who hunger and thirst after rightousness.

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