Sunday Talks

 

Peter Fitch speaks once more about the dance between Spirit and flesh. He tries to explain why the concept of being “born again” led to an unhealthy path of seeing some people as less than human. He likes the idea of being “born from above” better as it implies an on-going dance between God and people all over the world. Then he speaks about various maps that people have given to try to describe spiritual growth.

 

 

 

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Our community helped to host the Bonfire Festival this week. Musicians and artists from many places came together for workshops and performances. Today our time was part church service and part concert. Quite a few of the musicians sang songs that were meaningful to them. Along the way some beautiful thoughts were shared about God and community. Rosie Sperling Funk read this quote from Thomas Merton. Peter Fitch explained about a new initiative that Andrew Smith is offering, a subscription podcast for spiritual songs, many with a post-church flavour.

‘this light lingers / A Year of Song’ (available July 31, 2017)

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Peter Fitch continues to talk about the early parts of John’s Gospel. Today he focuses on the interaction that Nicodemus has with Jesus. What is Jesus saying to him when he indicates that we need to be “born from above”? (This is actually a more likely translation.) Peter thinks that historic interpretations have created a sense that Christians exist on a different level than others and that this has produced terrible results. He provides a different and more hopeful sense of what this passage might mean.

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This was a training service (third week of the month) so there was a little more time given to an exercise or activity. This week the topic was trust and the activity was an exercise in group Lectio Divina. Peter Fitch led this, based on the story of Nathaniel in John’s Gospel, and several others had rich things to add.

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Peter Fitch shares some more thoughts from a Creativity Workshop he prepared for the Artists Gathering in Kimberley, BC, this year. Before Peter speaks, Nate Petersen gives some reflections from a symposium on faith in Canada that he just attended in Ottawa. Then Peter begins by talking about the unlikely meeting place of spiritual and material concerns. In this he shares his longing for a middle ground, the place where the best of Spirit can infuse our ordinary life without some of the traditional problems of normal religion. In particular, he is looking for the benefits of Christianity without its historic problem of exclusivity. Along the way in the creativity talk, we listened to songs by Andrew Smith and Zoe Fitch.

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This Sunday was dedicated to creativity and to sharing ideas about how to help at the upcoming Bonfire Festival in St. Stephen (July 26-29). There were also some great songs shared before and after the break.

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June 21 was National Indigenous Peoples Day. Canadian Vineyard churches were challenged to focus on this by having “A Sunday for Speaking Truth.” Our whole service was dedicated to Indigenous concerns and issues and the teaching was given by Kanatiio, Negotiations Coordinator with the Peskotomuhkati Skutik. Chief Hugh Akagi also shared some thoughts and he noted that the problem with having a day set aside for speaking the truth is the fact that there are 364 other days in the year. We recorded this entire service, including the music and prayers. You can listen to the first part of the service

. The powerpoint for today includes the songs and liturgy. Many people felt that this was a “beyond special” time.

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Continuing with the training Sundays (usually the 3rd Sunday of the month), Walter Thiessen discusses the ways in which we can more regularly be reminded to be drawn back to gratitude.

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For the last two weeks, Peter Fitch has been speaking about the beginning of the first chapter of John’s Gospel. Since last week’s message didn’t record properly, he began this one with a short recap of what he said last week. Then he takes it further by discussing ideas about the phrase: “the Word became flesh.” He thinks of Word and Flesh together as an unlikely but necessary meeting place. He illustrates some of what he is talking about by making reference to Mr. Rogers, the popular icon of children’s television. Here is a link to the Intro and Outro music from his show.

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The Song and the Singing / June 4, 2017

Sorry! The recorder didn’t work again! Great talk by Peter Fitch, powerpoint is here and here is a link to the song Gabriel’s Oboe by Yo Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone that we listened to. Hope to have everything working by next week!

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