A variety of Sundays.
That’s what Peace Community Church in Edmonton aims for.
There’s the desire to keep God central.
There’s the caution to becoming the church that exhausts its members.
There’s the creativity to try to figure out the best ways to worship and be church.
So they have Service Sundays when they gather together on Sundays to bag lunches for homeless people or fix things around the Bible school space they are renting.
This is their chance to serve together as the hands and feet of Jesus.
They have Biography Sunday when they interview congregants.
Not just as a chance to get to know them better but a chance for that person to tell something about their faith journey.
It builds community while giving space for the Christian practice of testimony – telling the truth about God and telling the truth about themselves.
Whenever there’s a 5th Sunday in the month, it is Sabbatical Sunday.
Which means just that.
No church.
Jeff King, one of the elders, says they encourage people to take time to rest or fellowship or visit other churches.
In a world that idolizes work, it seems good as Christians to practice sabbath.
Of course, there’s Word Sunday – always with the goal of discovering something about God.
They want to know and walk in the ways of Jesus, learning more and more how to listen to the Spirit and to be able to recognize what the Spirit is doing in their midst.
Celebrating Communion every Sunday is the common thread through their communal gatherings, keeping the life and death and resurrection of Jesus first and foremost as they gather together as the local church.
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