We are free to love God-and enjoy God’s love-from the privacy of our own individual hearts we can even benefit from consuming the teaching, worship, and ministries on tap at our local church. We may encounter God individually but become disciples by joining the community. The question God puts to us is not only if we want a relationship with the Creator but with the Creator’s people, as well. God takes a dangerous detour to save the one lost lamb, but he brings that one lamb back to the ninety-nine. Like a good shepherd, God drives us together, toward each other, into a family, a flock. Then, as we respond to that love, that wooing, our individual relationship becomes a community affair. We cannot overstate this truth: God is here, loving you, empowering you, inviting you. God does meet us as individuals, loving us, healing us, calling us. On the one hand, there is important truth here. Everything goes through the filter of “I” and “me.” We think of sin as something an individual does, salvation as a gift God gives that individual, faith a relationship between God and one person, redemption happening in an individual life story. We Westerners are committed to a radical new idea: that a person’s primary identity is not found in their family, community, or group but within themselves that a person’s primary duty is not to the family, community, or group but to achieving personal fulfillment. In actively joining the mission of loving God and loving our neighbors, together in imperfect but committed community, we discover that our needs are met. All that we receive at church-teaching, sacraments, worship, community, spiritual formation-are the fuel that keeps us going and binds us together.
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The church exists to empower its members to come together and meet the needs of the full community. But unlike most institutions, the church does not exist primarily to meet the needs of its members. Enticed by marketing and programming, entertained by performers on a stage as we watch from auditorium seating-well, it sure looks like a consumer product. We think of church as a benefit or service to consume, not a community to invest in or a team to join. First up are the twin American loves of consumerism and individualism. In addition to comfy seating, a few American assumptions make it challenging for us to get up and follow, to actively join Jesus’ disciples. Maybe pews, those ergonomic nightmares, had something going for them: We didn’t want to keep sitting. Church is where we sit for a bit, drinking in nourishment and fellowship in order to stand back up and get to work. But then again, comfortable is not what we’re supposed to feel at church. Tire mount piece came damaged so i could only use 3 out of the 4 bolt holes.Does your church have chairs or pews? The old pews I grew up sitting on really wore on the tailbone and backbone today’s chairs are so much more comfortable.
Installing the Wilco back on before the next trip so i won’t have to worry about the carrier swinging like a dingy in rough waters even while just driving in a city… Should’ve just bought a Rigd or rear bumper I contacted them and they suggested i find somebody with a vice to try and straighten it out… Tire mount piece came damaged so i could only use 3 out of the 4 bolt holes. 15” of spacing all around the hitch part making this thing loser than anything else I’ve seen Waited 10 months, originally 10 weeks…, for it to come with just primer on it Squeaks like crazy when you open it cause the swing out arm has a portion that sits directly on top of the main support, metal on metal and just eats away at any paint. Carrier wobbles to the push of a finger The hex key adapter used to tighten the anti-wobble device is softer than warm butter and strips with little to no effort Does not sit level when you open it so if you did manage to mount a table, everything will roll off it Cannot easily mount a front runner table onto it
I was wrong.ĭetours of Maine is a terrible tire carrier. Saw the Detours of Maine carrier and thought it be exactly what i was looking for…. I had a Wilco that worked well but i wanted something to sit closer to the body. Get a Rigd if you want something closer to the body and not be a total waste of money like the Detours of Maine carrier.
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