TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Sider,J.Alexander
AU  - Villegas,Isaac S.
TI  - Presence: giving and receiving God 
SN  - 9781608996711 (pbk)
AV  - BV4241 .S54 2011
U1  - 248.4 Sid 2011 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Eugene, Or.
PB  - Cascade Books
KW  - Sermons, American
KW  - Christian life
KW  - Sermons
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217); Hope -- Communion -- Desire -- Power -- Money -- Salvation -- Strangers -- Conclusion
N2  - As God's eternal life flows through us, we learn to let go of our pretensions of control and rest into the new life offered in Jesus Christ. This book is an invitation for you to become nonresistant to this movement of God's love for you and the world. Through a variety of sermons and meditations, Sider and Villegas bear witness to a grace that disarms our guardedness and makes room for us to fall into the love of God. Preaching becomes a dispossessive practice, as each person is invited to give and receive God's transforming power. he proclamation of the gospel, Villegas and Sider say, should display the priesthood of all believers. Thus, the call to preach belongs to the whole congregation and its conversation rather than to the lone preacher and her (or his) sermon. Presence: Giving and Receiving God draws on the Mennonite tradition of the Zeugnis ("conversation") to explore how the preached Word echoes through all of our voices
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