I am a pastor in the ELCA, on the roster of the Northeastern Ohio Synod and called to serve at Trinity Lutheran Church in Kent, Ohio.
I am also a trainer with Church Innovations and would enjoy working with you to discover the various way the Six Missional Practices could renew and reinvigorate your congregation.
You can find out more at theothru.net Phone: 330-803-2583 Address: Trinity Lutheran Church 600 S Water St Kent, OH 44240
The Actors Are Come Hither: God's Promise of Vocation Given in Public Christian Worship, 2014
An intentional hermeneutic circle focusing on systematic theology informed by sociological resear... more An intentional hermeneutic circle focusing on systematic theology informed by sociological research in four congregations following an exploratory concurrent embedded mixed method strategy around the question, “How does public Christian worship center the vocational identities of individuals in the mid and upper Midwest associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America?” The answer discovered is by forming them with sacramental practices that help them perceive relationships as relationships with the trustworthy, reliable Jesus. Uses the work of Atkins, Drescher, Jenson, Keifert, Kolden, Lange, Lathrop, Taylor, Toulmin, Wainwright, and Welker, along with Hamlet, act 2, as interpretive partners in developing a relational theology that challenges public Christian leaders and theological education to focus on God’s relationship with creation as the basis for relational theology. This necessitates formation in sacramental practices that help us enter into public Christian worship in order to participate in that relationship throughout all aspects of life in many different given vocational identities so that we might discern which god is calling. Similarly, this challenges popular understandings of vocation as occupation and even the popular understanding of the theology of vocation developed by Benne, Buechner, and Wingren.
The Actors Are Come Hither: God's Promise of Vocation Given in Public Christian Worship, 2014
An intentional hermeneutic circle focusing on systematic theology informed by sociological resear... more An intentional hermeneutic circle focusing on systematic theology informed by sociological research in four congregations following an exploratory concurrent embedded mixed method strategy around the question, “How does public Christian worship center the vocational identities of individuals in the mid and upper Midwest associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America?” The answer discovered is by forming them with sacramental practices that help them perceive relationships as relationships with the trustworthy, reliable Jesus. Uses the work of Atkins, Drescher, Jenson, Keifert, Kolden, Lange, Lathrop, Taylor, Toulmin, Wainwright, and Welker, along with Hamlet, act 2, as interpretive partners in developing a relational theology that challenges public Christian leaders and theological education to focus on God’s relationship with creation as the basis for relational theology. This necessitates formation in sacramental practices that help us enter into public Christian worship in order to participate in that relationship throughout all aspects of life in many different given vocational identities so that we might discern which god is calling. Similarly, this challenges popular understandings of vocation as occupation and even the popular understanding of the theology of vocation developed by Benne, Buechner, and Wingren.
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