{"id":731,"date":"2018-01-08T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2018-01-08T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:20:06","slug":"calling-in-a-paradigm-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/calling-in-a-paradigm-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling In A Paradigm Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I haven’t written since before Christmas what with preparing both our home and the church for the annual celebration. It was a good and full time tinged with the cyclical sadness of the anniversary of my mom’s death.
\nI preached Christmas and Epiphany services. Old stories. New words. And was struck again with how Christians (I can only speak to my tradition, though I believe it exists in every spiritual tradition) are charged with challenging the dominant social paradigm.
\nI am not interested in saving of my soul from a vengeful and angry God. I refuse to afraid of Godde. It goes against every light fiber of my being.
\nNope. I am ready to call Christians to be Christians and stop being \u00a0moral puppets for right wing ideologues. Morality is not about ruling the minutia of the bedroom, the ‘place’ of women, or the arrogance of claiming that the wealthy are favored by Godde.<\/p>\n

Here’s the new (for the last two thousand+ years) paradigm Christians are challenged to shift into:
\n– share so that there is enough for everyone: food, water, housing, healthcare
\n– act out of love, not warm-fuzzy feelings, but with the intent for the well-being of others
\n– claim the power to forgive so that you are freed from destructive impulses and a space is made for the possibility of peace.
\n– be a compassionate conduit of grace
\n– see the face of Godde in absolutely<\/em> every creature you meet.
\n– work against oppression in all its forms
\n– don’t base your actions on results you can calculate but \u00a0trust the call to live in a different way
\n– don’t be afraid<\/p>\n

To all you Christians and former Christians out there: it’s time to take back our faith. It has been coopted by the powerful and twisted in to shapes unrecognizable. Even as a pastor I am sometimes ashamed to say I am a Christian because of what it has (rightfully) come to mean to the majority of people. But now I want to invite\u00a0all you closeted Christians, all you exes who have bitter bile in your throats, all you who have stretched beyond the confines of rigid morality, all you who have been oppressed and broken by the church to take back our faith and drink in the sweet nectar of grace.\u00a0\u00a0It’s time to become the paradigm shift Christ calls us to by living it into existence. It’s time to do \u00a0the faithful work of changing the world.<\/p>\n

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I haven’t written since before Christmas what with preparing both our home and the church for the annual celebration. It was a good and full time tinged with the cyclical sadness of the anniversary of my mom’s death. I preached Christmas and Epiphany services. Old stories. New words. And was struck again with how Christians … Continue reading Calling In A Paradigm Shift<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,5,13,22,21,25,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}