Matt Pritchard » Incarnational Expression http://www.mattpritchard.com Connecting People and Communities Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:11:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Not-So-Simple Life. http://www.mattpritchard.com/2009/01/25/a-not-so-simple-life/ http://www.mattpritchard.com/2009/01/25/a-not-so-simple-life/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:14:51 +0000 Matt http://www.atthemargins.com/?p=197

The Washington Post Magazine today features a wonderful article about A Simple House, A Not-So-Simple Life.  It’s a really great article that helps explain a lot of the things we’ve been working through living in community. It also features a couple of quotes from my housemate Dawnielle Miller and mentions our community, Casa Chirilagua.  Let me know what you think! ]]> http://www.mattpritchard.com/2009/01/25/a-not-so-simple-life/feed/ 1 Activist D.C. Church Embraces Transition in Name of Its Mission http://www.mattpritchard.com/2009/01/25/activist-dc-church-embraces-transition-in-name-of-its-mission/ http://www.mattpritchard.com/2009/01/25/activist-dc-church-embraces-transition-in-name-of-its-mission/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:54:44 +0000 Matt http://www.atthemargins.com/?p=194

The Washington Post’s Michelle Boorstein recently wrote an article about Church of the Savior, Activist D.C. Church Embraces Transition in Name of Its Mission. To quote one of my friends in the city, “No other group of people has done more to bring social justice to the city.” They were emerging decades before anyone had any concept of what that meant. I have many friends in their community and I admire their work more than I can articulate. ]]> http://www.mattpritchard.com/2009/01/25/activist-dc-church-embraces-transition-in-name-of-its-mission/feed/ 0 He Lives for Us http://www.mattpritchard.com/2007/12/28/he-lives-for-us/ http://www.mattpritchard.com/2007/12/28/he-lives-for-us/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:01:21 +0000 Matt http://www.atthemargins.com/2007/12/28/he-lives-for-us/ So many Christians are focused on the fact that Jesus died for us. One of my favorite things to tell people is that “He lives for us,” not to mention “in us” through the Holy Spirit.

Sure, He definitely died for us, but I’m not so sure that that was the sine quo non of His earthly mission. It seems to me the fact that He came to live as one us for 30 odd years is pretty important, not to mention the fact that He still lives now. Oh yeah, and there’s the whole ressurection thing.

I’ll be the first to proclaim that the cost of discipleship is death. Followers of Christ must both figuratively die to themselves for Christ and others and be willing to, in the model of Christ, literally die for Christ and others.

Fixation with Christ’s death however only fuels the oft-quoted, but seldom contextualized, Nietzschen axiom that “God is dead.”

The Church really needs a God that is not dead. A God who is speaking and active in His people. A God that is equipping His people to “to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners” (Isaiah 61:1). A God who continues to reveal Himself to us and show us the Way. A God who is actively involved in the continual transformation and liberation of His creation.

]]> http://www.mattpritchard.com/2007/12/28/he-lives-for-us/feed/ 1 Boston Globe features Ma Siss’s Place and Quincy Street Missional Church in Final Installment of Four Part Series http://www.mattpritchard.com/2007/12/27/boston-globe-features-ma-siss%e2%80%99s-place-and-quincy-street-missional-church-in-final-installment-of-four-part-series/ http://www.mattpritchard.com/2007/12/27/boston-globe-features-ma-siss%e2%80%99s-place-and-quincy-street-missional-church-in-final-installment-of-four-part-series/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:33:17 +0000 Matt http://www.atthemargins.com/2007/12/27/boston-globe-features-ma-siss%e2%80%99s-place-and-quincy-street-missional-church-in-final-installment-of-four-part-series/ My friends at Ma Siss’s Place and Quincy Street Missional Church continue to be featured in the Boston Globe this morning and last.

Part 4: And who, now, will lead them?

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Part 2: A call to serve, and to lead

Part 3: A crisis year, a Christmas comeback

Quincy Street: Prayer Study

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My friends at Ma Siss’s Place and Quincy Street Missional Church were featured on the front page of the Boston Globe this morning.

This first in four part series will continue the next three days (I will post a link each day) and features many pictures and some other multimedia.

“From a Dorchester Chop Shop, to a Place to Pray”

Quincy Street

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It’s the story that is often used to instruct people to slow down and sit at the feet of God.

Rob chose a different exposition, encouraging a balance between prayer and simply time with God and with service. Certainly a true and good teaching from the verses!

While he was speaking, I kept asking God to speak to me about the verses.

The imagery he put in my heart was about the homeless in DC. On any given evening, you can sit in one of the parks and see church van after church van, coming by to drop off food. Those churches are doing a wonderful thing and Jesus spoke a lot about feeding the hungry. The problem is that there are very few Marys willing to sit at the feet of the homeless men and women and just listen.

So often I want to see the results of my work, to know that my labor is effective. The problem is that Christ often asks us to do things which we will never see the results of. Sometimes we are so focused on doing things that we forget to slow down to listen and love. Love takes time. Love takes sacrifice. And scariest of all, loving someone else means that we will often get hurt. Love is intangible–I can say I gave out 100 meals or built a home for a family, but it’s impossible to quantify love. Besides telling people that you sit on a bench and talked to a homeless person all evening is a lot less glamorous than saying you fed dozens of people. Even worse, people might think you are lazy.

For the past couple of years Grace Community Church has been sending teams to visit the Quaresma family–a brazilian couple that, after having 3 biological kids, began adopting. Today their family is over 30 and by the grace of God they are the most functional family I have ever known. The first year we went, we wanted to help them build their new house, instead we cleared a field and spent a lot of time with the family. The next year, we painted their new house. The thing is though, what the Quaresmas cared about was not the painting or the hoeing–the cost of our plane tickets alone would have paid for our labor many times over. What they cared about was getting to know us and us them. They would have been just as happy for us to just show up and hang out.

Our desire was to build something we could see and touch, God’s desire was to build love in our hearts.

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Download | Link

Artist: Speaking of Faith

Duration: Appx 58 min

Created: Thu, 10 May 2007

Category: Speech

Subject: Shane Claiborne

Interviewer: Krista Tippett

NPR's show Speaking of Faith this week explores New Monasticism in an interview with Shane Claiborne.
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Download | Link

Artist: Speaking of Faith

Duration: Appx 58 min

Created: Thu, 10 May 2007

Category: Speech

Subject: Shane Claiborne

Interviewer: Krista Tippett

NPR’s show Speaking of Faith this week explores New Monasticism in an interview with Shane Claiborne.

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Freedom from Fear

Category: Organization Website

A friend in my "Theology of Resistance" class at UVa (which I\\\'ve unfortunately missed the last couple of weeks) is part of an initiative called Freedom from Fear. It\\\'s something I\\\'ve written about before, so I won\\\'t belabor the point, but I really like the vision. One of their sayings is, "Blame Me for War." (They use it with the italicized excerpt from the quote below.) Wow! The Church is God\\\'s chosen mechanism for the continual redemption of the world. And as such, we as Christians are uniquely, particularly, and peculiarly equipped to address the hurts of this world. When we fail to do so, we should expect sickness, violence, and suffering to erupt all around us and around our world. We, like doctors who proclaim the sickness and fail to medicate, are responsible for the pain and the lack of healing in our world when we hold the cure and choose to do nothing. There are no substitutes for the Church\\\'s active love of people--not political justice, not just war, not charity, not governmental programs, not morality. As such, I, personally and as part of the Church, am responsible for the hurt of so many people. It is a failure that I must mourn, repent of, and seek to remedy. If you want someone to blame, blame me, for I am guilty. I possess the elixir and so often fail to use it. Now certainly, even if we love boldly, care for the poor, live our lives as sacrifices for others, there will still be sin, both personally and corporate, both inside the Church and in the world. We will fail to love people perfectly and people, including ourselves, will make evil choices even given the opportunity to make Godly ones. We will fall short of perfection, but we should not be dismayed, we worship a God who sent His son to redeem a broken world, and who has sent His Holy Spirit as a guide for the Church in His continual action in the world. We must get back up and continue to proclaim our Master as we manifest the Kingdom with our lives. It is in this context that I ask the question: What would the world look like if we as Christians took seriously the call of Christ to dedicate and sacrifice ourselves in loving the world--the unlovable, the hurting, the enemy in our midst?

In 1968 Jacques Ellul wrote the following three paragraphs:
“One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or other ‘their blood cries to heaven,’ and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony. Martin Luther King probably came ten years too late for the black Americans; the roots of violence had already gone deep. So, instead of listening to the fomenters of violence, Christians ought to repent for having been too late. For if the time comes when despair sees violence as the only possible way, it is because Christians were not what they should have been. If violence is unleashed anywhere at all, the Christians are always to blame. This is the criterion, as it were, of the confession of sin. Always, it is because Christians have not been concerned for the poor, have not defended the cause of the poor before the powerful, have not unswervingly fought the fight for justice, that violence breaks out. Once violence is there, it is too late. And then Christians cannot try to redeem themselves and soothe their conscience by participating in violence.” “But now let me give a warning. If the Christian cannot demand, cannot even suggest, that nonChristians should act as though they were inspired by the Christian faith, he must take the same attitude toward the revolutionaries and toward the state. To demand that a non-Christian state should refrain from using violence is hypocrisy of the worst sort; for the Christian’s position derives from the faith, and moreover he exercises no responsible political function. To ask a government not to use the police when revolutionary trouble is afoot, or not to use the army when the international situation is dangerous, is to ask the state to commit hara-kari. A state responsible for maintaining order and defending the nation cannot accede to such a request. The intellectuals can play the game on their own terms; they hold no political office, they are outsiders; so it is easy for them with their high principles to decide what should be done. Christian honesty and Christian humility would prompt the question: ‘If I really were in that official’s position, what would I risk doing?’ And it is a well-known fact that the very intellectuals who criticize power so violently do no better than others once they themselves have arrived in places of power.” “In the face of a non-Christian state, all the Christian can do is — not read it a moral lecture, not rail at it and demand the impossible; not these things. All the Christian can do is to remind the state that, though it be secularized and its officials be atheists, it and they are nevertheless servants of the Lord. Whether they know it or not, whether they like it or not, they are servants of the Lord — for the good. And they will have to render account to the Lord for the way they did their service. Obviously the Christian’s task is not a very pleasant one. He is ridiculed, he is isolated from other political movements; he cannot howl with the wolves!”

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Freedom from Fear

Category: Organization Website

A friend in my “Theology of Resistance” class at UVa (which I\\\’ve unfortunately missed the last couple of weeks) is part of an initiative called Freedom from Fear. It\\\’s something I\\\’ve written about before, so I won\\\’t belabor the point, but I really like the vision.

One of their sayings is, “Blame Me for War.” (They use it with the italicized excerpt from the quote below.) Wow! The Church is God\\\’s chosen mechanism for the continual redemption of the world. And as such, we as Christians are uniquely, particularly, and peculiarly equipped to address the hurts of this world. When we fail to do so, we should expect sickness, violence, and suffering to erupt all around us and around our world. We, like doctors who proclaim the sickness and fail to medicate, are responsible for the pain and the lack of healing in our world when we hold the cure and choose to do nothing. There are no substitutes for the Church\\\’s active love of people–not political justice, not just war, not charity, not governmental programs, not morality.

As such, I, personally and as part of the Church, am responsible for the hurt of so many people. It is a failure that I must mourn, repent of, and seek to remedy. If you want someone to blame, blame me, for I am guilty. I possess the elixir and so often fail to use it.

Now certainly, even if we love boldly, care for the poor, live our lives as sacrifices for others, there will still be sin, both personally and corporate, both inside the Church and in the world. We will fail to love people perfectly and people, including ourselves, will make evil choices even given the opportunity to make Godly ones. We will fall short of perfection, but we should not be dismayed, we worship a God who sent His son to redeem a broken world, and who has sent His Holy Spirit as a guide for the Church in His continual action in the world. We must get back up and continue to proclaim our Master as we manifest the Kingdom with our lives.

It is in this context that I ask the question: What would the world look like if we as Christians took seriously the call of Christ to dedicate and sacrifice ourselves in loving the world–the unlovable, the hurting, the enemy in our midst?

In 1968 Jacques Ellul wrote the following three paragraphs:

“One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or other ‘their blood cries to heaven,’ and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony. Martin Luther King probably came ten years too late for the black Americans; the roots of violence had already gone deep. So, instead of listening to the fomenters of violence, Christians ought to repent for having been too late. For if the time comes when despair sees violence as the only possible way, it is because Christians were not what they should have been. If violence is unleashed anywhere at all, the Christians are always to blame. This is the criterion, as it were, of the confession of sin. Always, it is because Christians have not been concerned for the poor, have not defended the cause of the poor before the powerful, have not unswervingly fought the fight for justice, that violence breaks out. Once violence is there, it is too late. And then Christians cannot try to redeem themselves and soothe their conscience by participating in violence.”

“But now let me give a warning. If the Christian cannot demand, cannot even suggest, that nonChristians should act as though they were inspired by the Christian faith, he must take the same attitude toward the revolutionaries and toward the state. To demand that a non-Christian state should refrain from using violence is hypocrisy of the worst sort; for the Christian’s position derives from the faith, and moreover he exercises no responsible political function. To ask a government not to use the police when revolutionary trouble is afoot, or not to use the army when the international situation is dangerous, is to ask the state to commit hara-kari. A state responsible for maintaining order and defending the nation cannot accede to such a request. The intellectuals can play the game on their own terms; they hold no political office, they are outsiders; so it is easy for them with their high principles to decide what should be done. Christian honesty and Christian humility would prompt the question: ‘If I really were in that official’s position, what would I risk doing?’ And it is a well-known fact that the very intellectuals who criticize power so violently do no better than others once they themselves have arrived in places of power.”

“In the face of a non-Christian state, all the Christian can do is — not read it a moral lecture, not rail at it and demand the impossible; not these things. All the Christian can do is to remind the state that, though it be secularized and its officials be atheists, it and they are nevertheless servants of the Lord. Whether they know it or not, whether they like it or not, they are servants of the Lord — for the good. And they will have to render account to the Lord for the way they did their service. Obviously the Christian’s task is not a very pleasant one. He is ridiculed, he is isolated from other political movements; he cannot howl with the wolves!”

]]> http://www.mattpritchard.com/2006/10/31/blame-me-matt-pritchard-for-war-poverty-hatred-and-suffering/feed/ 0 Incarnational Christian http://www.mattpritchard.com/2006/10/25/incarnational-christian/ http://www.mattpritchard.com/2006/10/25/incarnational-christian/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:43:00 +0000 Matt http://www.orangewombat.com/blog/?p=42 Several weeks ago I was asked what type of Christian I was by a new friend expecting to receive a response along the lines of methodist, baptist, et cetera. My new acquaintance instead got a 15 minute explanation of what type of Christian I am. At any rate, it got me thinking, what type of Christian am I–not that one needs a type? I grew up methodist, but apart from really liking much of Wesley’s teachings (I am not as well read any them as I would like), I’m really unsure what it means to be methodist. Most would consider me evangelical, but I fundamentally disagree with much of their practice. I’ve yet to grasp what emergent really means and to say I’m New Monastic is probably too specific.

I’ve arrived upon incarnational. I believe that we are to seek to incarnate the model of Christ’s obedience to the Father and that, in the model of Christ, we are to seek to love others with complete self-sacrifice, even to death. Of course it could be misinterpreted as simply another way of saying we should emulate the specific life of Christ (see my post “What Would Jesus Do? Really???” What I mean by it is that we are the body of Christ acting in the world and that Christ is incarnate in us through His Holy Spirit which dwells in us.

I’m not sure if incarnational is the best description (probably not), but it’s the best I’ve come up with so far. Any other ideas?

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Theirs Is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America

Rating: 5 out of 5

Author: Robert D. Lupton

Year: 1989

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco

ISBN: 0060653078

Robert Lupton artfully relates a variety of stories from his experiences in urban ministry. The short chapters make this book perfect for devotions.
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Theirs Is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America

Rating: 5 out of 5

Author: Robert D. Lupton

Year: 1989

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco

ISBN: 0060653078

Robert Lupton artfully relates a variety of stories from his experiences in urban ministry. The short chapters make this book perfect for devotions.

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Kingdom Works: True Stories About God and His People in Inner City America

Rating: 4 out of 5

Author: Bart Campolo

Year: 2001

Publisher: Vine Books

ISBN: 1569551952

Kingdom Works provides a wonderful group of devotions on urban ministry by one of mission year's founders, Bart Campolo.
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Kingdom Works: True Stories About God and His People in Inner City America

Rating: 4 out of 5

Author: Bart Campolo

Year: 2001

Publisher: Vine Books

ISBN: 1569551952

Kingdom Works provides a wonderful group of devotions on urban ministry by one of mission year’s founders, Bart Campolo.

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The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Rating: 5 out of 5

Author: Shane Claiborne

Year: 2006

Publisher: Zondervan

ISBN: 0310266300

As I have traveled the country talking with fellow 20-somethings, it has been clear that God is speaking to us in a united voice, however it has been difficult to find the words that correspond with this calling. Shane Claiborne artfully articulates what so many in our generation are hearing. A theologian who truly lives out the Call, he challenges the Church with exceptional love and truth. The only negative is that in chapter 11, I felt he crossed the line from solidarity with the poor and oppressed to political action. At any rate, it's a difficult path to navigate and Claiborne does it exceptionally (both in his writing and life)! I have given away over 150 copies. A must read!

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The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Rating: 5 out of 5

Author: Shane Claiborne

Year: 2006

Publisher: Zondervan

ISBN: 0310266300

As I have traveled the country talking with fellow 20-somethings, it has been clear that God is speaking to us in a united voice, however it has been difficult to find the words that correspond with this calling. Shane Claiborne artfully articulates what so many in our generation are hearing. A theologian who truly lives out the Call, he challenges the Church with exceptional love and truth.

The only negative is that in chapter 11, I felt he crossed the line from solidarity with the poor and oppressed to political action. At any rate, it’s a difficult path to navigate and Claiborne does it exceptionally (both in his writing and life)!

I have given away over 150 copies. A must read!

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Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America

Rating: 5 out of 5

Author: Mike Yankoski

Year: 2005

Publisher: Multnomah

ISBN: 1590524020

This is a great chronicle of a student who felt called to spend 5 months on the street as a homeless man. Wow!
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Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America

Rating: 5 out of 5

Author: Mike Yankoski

Year: 2005

Publisher: Multnomah

ISBN: 1590524020

This is a great chronicle of a student who felt called to spend 5 months on the street as a homeless man. Wow!

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