Tag: amen

  • Finding Amen

    Our posture as Christians is Amen.

    While I may disagree with friends in Christ. While I may not understand their culture, their gender, their sexual preference, their politics, or what it is like to walk in their skin… I can choose to stand with a Christian friend and say Amen.

    I can even look at someone I have nothing in common except a common Amen compelled by Jesus and honestly called them, friend. We may disagree in everything, but Amen gives us the power to look truthfully in one another’s eyes and say, “In Christ– I stand in agreement with you.”

    You want to know how to change your block, your community, or even the world? Stand with people in Amen.

    • If life seems too contentious– find Amen
    • If the world seems too big– find Amen
    • If your identity is in what divides instead of what unites– find Amen
    • If your worship is one dimensional– find Amen
    • If you are lonely on your block– find Amen
    • If you aren’t making a difference in your community– find Amen
    • If things just don’t make sense anymore– find Amen
    • If the church you are a part of zaps the life out of you– find Amen

    Is your faith malnourished?  Feed your soul on Amen.

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  • The unstoppable force of amen

    The word amen declares affirmation. I agree.

    Amen is not simple.

    It’s an ancient posture we’ve lost sight of. Amen is something we experience when we stand together in agreement. Living in amen isn’t the forebearance of ones own opinion so much as it’s setting ones own opinion in submission of the amen of community.

    We stand in agreement. Amen. We rest in amen. We dwell in amen. The Spirit manifests Himself in amen.

    You can’t actually have amen alone. It’s impossible — you cannot declare affirmation to yourself!

    To reside in amen is a state of communion with Jesus and one another. Communion isn’t merely an act of taking some bread and wine and remembering Jesus life, death, and resurrection for us. Communion invites us to live in a radical, different kind of community with one another. It sets aside ourselves in the embrace of another, en masse self. The amen.

    When our zip code is amen we are a different people, an unstoppable selfless force.

    Morning prayer

    Lord, make us a people who don’t just say amen but live amen. Amen.