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.
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.
In this message, Pastor T. C. outlines Jesus’s framework for transforming conflict through reconciliation from Matthew 18.
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. teaches on an important part of being family: differentiation. If we are properly differentiated we can easily fall into indifference or enmeshment. And our differences are important—without them we could not be united in one Body.
Pastor T. C. continues the Roots teaching series, “The Church as Forged Family” with a message on Psalm 68.4-6 which praises God for being a “father to the fatherless, a defender of widows” and for “setting the lonely in families.” This is a theme that is at the heart of what it means to be…