The Blog of E. Dale Nixon

We rarely experience God so much as God simply allows us to perceive His divine presence or reality.

Birth is not something we honestly experience as much as it is what allows us to experience life.

We don’t experience life as much as birth (existence) allows us to experience life—or Life is what allows us to experience phenomenal reality.

We don’t so much see light as much as light is what allows us to see everything else.

Christianity is not something you can grasp as much as it is what changes how we grasp or understand everything…

God doesn’t enter creation as an object or thing that I can merely talk about or know about –God transforms how I know or talk about (how I interact with) everything/ everyone else in creation.

Jesus, while being as much God as Human, was emptied of the fullness/totality of divinity in order to fully enter a fragment of created reality. Moses got a more glorified glimpse of God and literally glowed for days.

God is the one who transforms my experience from general phenomenon to divine encounter.

For more than a hundred years, eleven o’clock Sunday morning has been known as the most segregated hour in this country. Despite the cultural integration of schools, neighborhoods and workplaces, most churches remain stuck in ethnic homogeneity.
Is this the way God prefers church congregations to gather? I don’t think so. Perhaps it’s worth talking about.
We have scheduled a conversation time, 5:00 p.m. this Sunday, June 6th, with guest, Wayne Rowbottom, to explore how our church plans to host an upcoming community event designed to serve Spanish-speaking individuals in our community. We want to talk with him about how this may provide opportunities for our own church to begin crossing ethnic barriers in our surrounding neighborhoods.

Click here for the church website and location information.