EGMC Sermon Audio

Forgiveness is Essential for Community. Following Jesus calls us into new forms of relationship with God and one another. True Christian community requires both vertical forgiveness from God and horizontal forgiveness from each other.

Jesus is the Center of our Faith: Scripture is Interpreted in the Light of Christ- Our written scriptures are dynamic narratives of God's work in the world. With faith in Jesus as the Word of God, Anabaptist Christians approach the Biblical texts in the context of Christ's spirit and teachings.

As the newness of life surrounds us let the spirit of life, the spirit of truth transform us into new beings.

In the labor of discernment, we can prepare ourselves with practices such as spiritual disciplines, questions, and willingness. Through such labor, our pain can turn to joy as new life comes into the world.

: “God is always speaking to us – individually and as a people of God – at different times and in many ways: through dreams and visions, prophets and messengers, scripture and tradition, experience and reason, nature and events…discernment is the spiritual practice that accesses and seeks to understand what God is trying to say.” Henri Nouwen, Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life, vii.