Tag: ekklesia

Fruit for the World

ByAlex Franklin July 16, 2020 2 Comments
| "Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. "I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such...

Church: Are We Built Around the Building?

ByAlex Franklin May 29, 2020 1 Comment
I believe that the Coronavirus pandemic has many profound lessons to teach us if we'll let it. The pandemic has revealed that we don't have nearly as much control as we think we do; And that our systems are not nearly as resilient as we'd like to believe. Our systems work great when conditions are optimal (or close to it), but the moment that equilibrium is significantly disrupted we find that...