Eighth Day’s Theological Underpinnings
August 20, 2017
Texts:
Matt 15:10-20
Romans 12:1-21
Good morning, friends. I’m Maria Barker and I am a member of the Servant Leaders mission group, along with Marcia Harrington, Kent Beduhn, Kate Lasso, David Hilfiker, and Emily Owsley. My teaching today will be the first in a series of four teachings that will take place between today and October 1. The following weekend, October 7&8, our camp meeting will have a family reunion, inviting all past members of the community, to celebrate the fact that the community is 40 years old! (Actually we have in fact turned 41 already, but we really wanted to get in a big party this year.)
The themes that we will pick up on in this series all have to do with Who is the Eighth Day Faith Community? What is our identity as a church, how does that identity form, and why are we structured the way we are? And today I’m going to focus on Eighth Day’s theology and how that gets expressed.