Sermons on Family
Ethnic Identity & Social Location
In this message Pastor T. C. explores the way we locate ourselves ethnically, racially, and relative to others in society. In Acts 21, Paul attempts to navigate what Dr. Willie James Jennings calls the “diaspora anxiety” of the Jerusalem elders. But it fails spectacularly. We need a better way.
Family & Privilege
In this message, Pastor T. C. confronts an important relational dynamic that affects forging family: privilege. Pastor T. C. draws from Jesus’s teachings and from the letters of the apostle Paul, as well as pointing to a new resource on privilege by Dominique Gilliard entitled, Subversive Witness.
Practicing Family
Pastor T. C. continues the teaching series “The Church as Forged Family” with a message about how embodied practices forge family. Before we think of ourselves as family, and before we call ourselves family, we have to participate in family-forging practices.
Church as Family
In this sermon, Pastor Osheta relates the description of the early church to her own experiences of inclusion and belonging in the church as a family.
Transforming Conflict
In this message, Pastor T. C. outlines Jesus’s framework for transforming conflict through reconciliation from Matthew 18.