Responding to Jesus' Call - 3.2.25 | Rev. Chris Currie

Turn and leave your life behind.

More beautiful words have never been spoken.

My passage through seconds, minutes, and hours

could hardly be called life. Enticing.

Those words waft toward me like smells from Mom's kitchen.

They drift toward me supremely, like the love from Coltrane's saxophone.

I realize that those words, follow me, are just an invitation back home.

-Drew Jackson, "Follow Me" in God Speaks Through Wombs

Discipleship & Healing - 2.23.25 | Rev. Chris Currie

The gospel imperative for the church is not simply the call to a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. In that way of expressing the gospel message, a radically individualistic emphasis overwhelms the definition of what it means to be a Christian. While no one would argue against the idea that the Lord saves individuals and reconciles them to himself, the gospel is so much more than that. It must include the fulness of what it means to be made in the image of God. The finished image, the most telling and striking likeness of God, is the entirety of redeemed community. - Irwyn L. Ince, Jr., The Beautiful Community