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The Jesus Creed <\/em>not only reshaped my perception of spiritual formation, it also reshaped our life. I spent very little time traveling and speaking prior to Jesus Creed<\/em>, but we can\u2019t express the joy it has been for us to get to travel to churches all over the USA to speak now that churches have discovered Jesus Creed<\/em> and Embracing Grace<\/em>. Yesterday Kris and I traveled down to Olympia Fields, IL, to speak at The Emmaus Community<\/a> (of hospitality).
\nOperative word: hospitality.
\nLast summer I spoke at Emmaus Community about Jesus Creed, but this time they asked me to speak about The Real Mary<\/em>, and they prepared for it in part by renting out a theater and watching The Nativity Story. Last summer pastor James King<\/a> (Pastor J) was not there; pastor Alise Barrymore<\/a> (Pastor A) was. This time we met James King but Alise was not there. Next time, we told them \u2014 we want to see them both! (Alise is a former colleague at North Park and we all miss her.)
\nEmmaus Community is special for us \u2014 an emerging (mostly) African American church that is growing in leaps and bounds in all ways. Worship \u2014 outstanding; singing \u2014 off the map; fellowship \u2014 just as outstanding. They lit the second Advent candle \u2014 with a cute little guy providing the reading.
\nBut we have to say their hospitality is out of this world. Ira Rounsaville<\/a> \u2014 the one I wrote about last summer who makes a wonderful barbecue sauce \u2014 met us in the parking lot to make sure we parked as close to the door as a guest should. From the moment we entered Emmaus\u2019 building, we were treated like royalty and family all at once. A kind woman kept her eye on us to make sure we had whatever we needed. Kris spoke so often today about how welcoming and warm her hostess was.
\nEmmaus has an opening time of worship and then they take a break. Just before the break I was interviewed and James asked (very kindly) if the subtitle \u2014 Why evangelical Christians can embrace the mother of Jesus \u2014 applied to Emmaus Community. Ouch! \u201cEvangelical\u201d for many today \u2014 especially for those in missionally-shaped churches \u2014 connotes right-wing politics rather than \u201cconvertive piety\u201d (Stan Grenz). I confess that the subtitle is open to misunderstanding. The book is designed to get Protestants to embrace Mary.
\nI raced through the life of Mary as a life of developing faith in a Messiah who altered the meaning of the idea of Messiah: I began with Mark 3:21 (feisty faith), went on to her challenges of Jesus in Luke 2 and John 2 (tested faith), then back to the Magnificat (courageous subversive faith), and then back to Mark 3:31-35 (new family faith), to the cross at John 19:25ff (faithful faith), and then into Acts 1\u20134 (flourshing faith).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"