Life Together

February 11, 2009

RAC serves AFAC

About 20 folks from Restoration will be heading down to the Arlington Food Assistance Center from 1-4pm on Valentine’s Day to help clean their warehouse. AFAC provides food for those who are most vulnerable in Arlington County. We want to join them in their mission, because we believe it is something close to the heart […]

February 10, 2009

Authority.

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So one of the things you’ll learn is that I am pretty un-Anglican in my Anglican-ness. The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian community in the world (the others of the ‘Big 3’ being Roman Catholicism and all the flavors of the Orthodox church). There is a lot of drama in the AC right […]

February 9, 2009

Everybody wants to belong…

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“Everybody wants to belong, but no one wants to join.” Everyone wants to ‘fit in’, but no one wants to commit. Hyperbole? a little. But, probably more true than we care to admit. We have been talking about how the Gospel changes everything. Practically, the primary tool that God gives us, to get this Gospel […]

February 4, 2009

Saving Yourself…

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We are a church that embraces at its core a radical idea that we cannot save ourself. We believe that our fundamental longings cannot be met by either fervent religion OR fervent self-actualization. We hold to the humble notion that humanity as a whole needs to be rescued. Yes, there is much that is good […]

January 29, 2009

Small Groups started this week

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Small groups started this week. They last about 90 minutes. After mingling and getting to know each other, we dig into the Bible passages that were preached from on Sunday. The theme of this time is: WRESTLE. We want to wrestle with understanding what the texts mean. We want to wrestle with what they mean […]