
Presence
Giving and Receiving God
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 17. June 2011
230 pages
978-1-62189-023-2 (ISBN)
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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.
The 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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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-62189-023-2 (9781621890232)
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
J. Alexander Sider is assistant professor of religion at Bluffton University.
Isaac S. Villegas is the pastor of Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship in North Carolina. He serves on the national board of Mennonite Church USA and the governing board of the NC Council of Churches.
Isaac S. Villegas is the pastor of Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship in North Carolina. He serves on the national board of Mennonite Church USA and the governing board of the NC Council of Churches.
Content
- Intro
- Presence
- Introduction
- Section 1: Hope
- Chapter 1: Lament and Repent
- Chapter 2: Gone Missing
- Chapter 3: Silent Witnesses
- Chapter 4: Waiting for a Promise
- Chapter 5: Waiting with Mary
- Chapter 6: Mater Ecclesia
- Chapter 7: A Protest of Hope
- Section 2: Communion
- Chapter 8: Eucharist Means Gratitude
- Chapter 9: Flesh and Blood
- Chapter 10: Our Tortured King
- Chapter 11: Bodies Matter
- Section 3: Desire
- Chapter 12: Heart's Desire
- Chapter 13: Faith and Love
- Chapter 14: Closer
- Chapter 15: If Our Hearts Condemn Us
- Chapter 16: You Shall Not Covet
- Section 4: Power
- Chapter 17: Illusions of Peace
- Chapter 18: Paul's Politics
- Chapter 19: Power in Weakness
- Chapter 20: Preparing for Peace
- Chapter 21: Remembering Home
- Section 5: Money
- Chapter 22: Caesar's Coin
- Chapter 23: Dirty Money
- Chapter 24: Irresponsible Stewards
- Chapter 25: Human Enough
- Section 6: Salvation
- Chapter 26: Companions without Paychecks
- Chapter 27: Life on the Vine
- Chapter 28: Deliverance from Egypt
- Chapter 29: Salvation Is Created
- Section 7: Strangers
- Chapter 30: Do You See This Woman?
- Chapter 31: Strangers
- Chapter 32: Who Are You?
- Chapter 33: The Risen Body
- Section 8: Conclusion
- Chapter 34: Voices
- Chapter 35: What Is This?
- Notes
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