A Chargeable Offense – v3

Nothing of the Spirit

of the calling in the words

the rigidity of the law

those who are cast out

A chargeable offense

not about calling, of their gifts,

about the proscription of our words

the boundaries of our love

Separating the faithful

calling some of us lost

nothing of Jesus

in a chargeable offense

edited November 26, 2014

A Chargeable Offense – v3

Edited December 24, 2013

A Chargeable Offense – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-chargeable-offense-v2.html

June 17, 2011

A Chargeable Offense

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/06/chargeable-offense.html

&

Edited December 23, 2013

Mending what is Broken – v8

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/mending-what-is-broken-v8.html

(editing original again)

after watching live stream of Frank Schaefer

http://www.foundryumc.org/rev-frank-schaefer-preach-foundry-dec-22-2013

preaching at Foundry United Methodist Church

December 22, 2013

&

Edited November 30, 2013

Mending what is Broken – v7

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/mending-what-is-broken-v7.html

(editing version 2)

Mending what is Broken – v6

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/mending-what-is-broken-v6.html

(editing version 4)

Edited September 13, 2013

Mending what is Broken – v4

(editing original again)

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/mending-what-is-broken-v4.html

Edited September 13, 2013

Mending what is Broken – v3

(editing original again)

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/mending-what-is-broken-v3.html

Edited August 28, 2013

Mending what is Broken – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/mending-what-is-broken-v2.html

June 13, 2011

Mending what is Broken

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/06/mending-what-is-broken.html

John 8

&

Samuel Thompson’s

http://www.facebook.com/#!/keleayon

Inclusion Essay

shared at the New England United Methodist Church

Annual Conference

http://www.neumc.org/pages/detail/195

in response to call by Reconciling Ministries Network

http://www.rmnetwork.org/

for essays describing, “My vision for an inclusive church”,

June 10, 2011

&

Love on Trial,

http://www.loveontrial.org/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-On-Trial/190582754298364

the case against the Reverend Amy DeLong,

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000572962166

which begins on June 20, 2011

http://www.rmnetwork.org/amy-delong/

&

in part inspired by conversations with

the Reverend John Makokha

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=556451505

Riruta UMC

http://rirutaumc.org

http://www.rmnetwork.org/

Other Sheep Afrika-Kenya http://www.othersheep.org/OSEA_CL_Other_Sheep_Kenya.html

Children of Africa Hope Mission Project in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. http://rirutaumc.homestead.com/children_of_africa.html

&

Matthew 25:31-46

The Sheep and the Goats

&
Matthew 28:18-20

Great Commission

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