~ Pastor Kim (Guam Korean Methodist Church) and his family came over for dinner last evening. We had to squeeze our meal in before his wife and children went to Korea for the summer and Pastor Daisy Ho (Guam United Methodist Church), our other guest, left Guam to take up her new assignment in SoCal. She leaves in a couple of weeks. We had a little jam session. Click on the pictures for a bigger view.~ We have a new Hafa Adai update on our ministry blog -- as well as some staff profiles.
~ Picture from our lunch with the Farnsworths on Friday.
~ David Lewis Stokes, Jr, a Roman Catholic priest who teaches at Providence College, has a newspaper column regarding how it is that people have come to expect originality in the pulpit. Richard Kew contextualizes it to the Anglican Church situation. The fundamental issue is the Word. Both are thoughtful pieces.
~ The Dinex building has arrived on the PIBC campus. This new dining and student center was constructed out of recycled cargo containers and trucked onto campus yesterday.
~ Michael Spencer thinks that there is too much music in worship. If the music was actually the vehicle which conveyed the liturgy rather than the focal point he might have a different opinion. Music isn't the problem -- even the quantity -- or the desire for quality. It's what we do with it or expect it to do.
~ Amen. Amen. Amen -- Don Johnson. I don't do private sacraments, either -- even at weddings. All are invited or none.
5 comments:
Brad,
Thanks for the link to Don Johnson's blog...I had never considered the implication of a "private" celebration of the sacrament before and so I'm glad to have read this.
I assume that serving communion to a shut-in or hospitalized parishioner is done as an extension of the community that gathered, no? In other words, would you serve communion to a shut-in with the understanding that this is considered a part of the communal event not a "special" event?
thx for the link to the spencer article. his answer #4 is certainly an intriguing notion.
Brian:
You're perceptive. Yes -- when we take communion to a shut-in it is not seen as a private personal communion but as an extension of the community celebration. And that's one reason communion servers will try to go in two's or even in bigger groups for the visit. And if someone else is in the room they will be invited to participate, too.
Rob:
It seems to me that the problem isn't so much the music itself but the lack of balance in how it is used -- and the lack of focus regarding why we include it.
Thanks Brad.
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