{"id":319,"date":"2012-05-17T19:59:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T00:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/?p=319"},"modified":"2012-05-17T19:59:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T00:59:46","slug":"its-got-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/2012\/05\/17\/its-got-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s got to happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2012\/05\/IMG_0771.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-320\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2012\/05\/IMG_0771-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within a few days Mary Lou and Gary were in two Covenant Churches with over 135 years of history in ministry and then some Churches with less than five years of time in ministry.\u00a0 These Covenant Churches were preaching the same Good News and celebrating the same new life in Jesus Christ. And, they showed us more of the challenge that we have in \u201cPreparing ourselves and others to receive and live out the gift\u201d\u2014the theme that we have been writing about for the past few months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2012\/05\/IMG_0761.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-321\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2012\/05\/IMG_0761-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Our time in the U.S., visiting our ministry partners, has allowed us to develop this theme further and deeper.\u00a0 We are sharing with others who have an identity and unity in Jesus Christ, as we all do as children of God.\u00a0 As his children we are desiring to find out how to best live out that identity and unity together in the ministry of extending the Kingdom of God, developing leadership, and setting compassion, mercy and justice loose.\u00a0 We are finding out how vast and different our brothers and sisters are here in the North American Covenant Church and how that enlarges and amplifies our identity in Jesus Christ.\u00a0 It includes people and personalities and attitudes and visions that we haven\u2019t encountered previously.\u00a0 And, in all that we have seen and experienced, with those that we have met for the first time and those that we have re-connected with, we have not encountered any ministry partner or Covenant Church that is unwilling to join us in this journey to live out together our identity and unity.\u00a0 It is quite exciting and challenging to walk together toward the next steps \u2013 encouraging joint participation and joint ownership and full voice in discussions and conversation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2012\/05\/IMG_0624.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-322\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2012\/05\/IMG_0624-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>As we go forward, we want to begin putting steps to all of the possibilities, \u201cmeat on the bones\u201d, strategy points to the ideas, substance to the framework\u2014so to speak.\u00a0 We know that this aspect of preparing ourselves to live out the gift is the challenge ahead.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want to think that we have seen it all before, and thus, have to come up with something new.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want to think that it depends on any one person, Church, ministry or Mission.\u00a0 We want to continue working to break down whatever barrier might appear unbreakable, close any distance that seems unreachable, build relationships that seem unbuildable, and bring together in unity what might appear to be impossible.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s got to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=319&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within a few days Mary Lou and Gary were in two Covenant Churches with over 135 years of history in ministry and then some Churches with less than five years of time in ministry.\u00a0 These Covenant Churches were preaching the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/2012\/05\/17\/its-got-to-happen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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