Our purpose in these guidelines is to assist you and your child in becoming full disciples of Jesus Christ. Background: Jesus began his ministry after a powerful, mystical experience of God’s love, an experience that happened during Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist. Jesus apparently did not baptize others. He called others to fellowship with […]
Making Disciples: Infant Baptism in a Small Church By The Rev A Wayne Schwab
(The Evangelism Committee believes that evangelism is not completed until one is in the world as part of Christ’s mission. While this looks like a daunting task–especially for infant baptism, it can be worked. Here is one congregation’s story.) The baby’s mother asks: “Why all this concern to baptize our child on a Sunday morning […]
It’s Time for a New Take on Mission
by The Rev. A. Wayne Schwab [The Witness Magazine, May, 2004] “We all want to develop the ministry of the laity. We just don’t have a clue as to how to do it!” I’ve heard that complaint countless times. Ministry in a variety of settings — congregational and national, ecumenical and denominational — has led […]
The Daily Mission Fields
By A. Wayne Schwab [The Living Church, December 21, 2003; READER’S VIEWPOINT] We hear little about the Church’s members as missionaries, about how they are making life better at home, at work, in their community, in the wider world, and in their leisure. These daily mission fields are seldom touched by the outreach programs of […]
No More Invisible, Silent Christians!
By The Rev. A. Wayne Schwab [The Witness Magazine, January, 2005] In these days of so many crises in public and private life, Christians are either too silent or too invisible! I believe the way we understand what Jesus does for us is much of the problem. Moving Beyond Jesus’ Death as a Sacrificial Atonement […]
The Member Mission Vision
By The Rev. A. Wayne Schwab and The Rev. John S. LeSueur [Trinity Church, Milford, MA — March 26, 2006] It is great to be here! You are catching the vision of “member mission.” There are four keys to member mission. They all grow out of Jesus’ mission to make the world more loving and […]
What mission guides our proselytizing?
By A. Wayne Schwab — April 17, 2009 I read about persecution of Christians for proselytizing in countries where other faiths dominate. Just what is the message coming across from the Christians? How do we understand our mission? What is our mission as the church? To make disciples; to reconcile people to God; to convert […]
King Day Talk
By A. Wayne Schwab [I am here by God’s serendipity. We had planned to make this Sunday our try at return to worship for me. Renate was asked to give this talk but could not. She was teaching in Vietnam that year, 1963. So I offered and here I am.] Recalling The March on Washington […]
The Crisis in Preparation of Candidates for Ordination in the Episcopal Church
By Peyton G. Craighill and A. Wayne Schwab [Prepared at the request of the Presiding Bishop — September 8. 2008] In recent months, Episcopal Church publications have run articles about the widespread concern for the condition of our seminaries as they face the task of preparing candidates for ordination. This concern is not new. For […]
Charles Darwin, Conservative?
THE NEW REPUBLIC February 11, 2009 WASHINGTON–Polls, particularly in the United States, tell us that many conservatives still distrust Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The bicentennial of his birth should be a fitting occasion for the right to take another look at a man who contributed immensely to some ideas that it holds dear. Darwin […]
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