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11.26.07 Finding Sacred Space at a coffee shop |
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Dr. Roland Kuhl who has served as a pastor and seminary professor is leading a new church start in the far north of Chicagoland where he has lived and served for the past two decades. Following the Apostle Paul’s example of sharing the gospel in the places where people gather, Kuhl will start with a public conversation at the Panera Bread in Round Lake Beach. “A whole new generation is seeking an encounter with God that is more than ‘Sunday services’ but is seeking a religious experience where God is in the totality of life,” said Kuhl. The new work is called Sacred Space and seeks to become a community of people who desire to be the presence of Christ in the contexts where God has placed them. “If by sacred space, we mean where God is present, then it is become more clear to me everyday that God is in places where we least expect God to be. When Jesus lived in Palestine almost 2000 years ago, he hung out with tax collectors, sick people, prostitutes -- people who did not make the ‘most likely to do anything’ list. The religious leaders of the day saw God only in the special places, the most holy places, but Jesus reveals that sacred space is wherever God is, wherever God shows up. If we get any idea where God does show up from Jesus' ministry, we begin to see that sacred space is among the marginalized, the disenfranchised, the destitute, the alienated,” said Kuhl. Sacred Space is the first new church start partnership of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the American Baptist Churches USA in Illinois. Representatives of the ABCUSA’s National Ministries, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and area pastors met at First Baptist Church of Waukegan, Illinois, to plan strategies for planting churches in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. Cooperation between the two groups dates back to 2002 when a covenantal agreement was created. |
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