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! The Jesus Movement is

The Jesus Movement
in 8 points
June 1, 2018
by Bill Carroll
 
" What is this Jesus
Movement the Presiding Bishop
keeps talking about?   I believe it
is merely basic, New Testament
Christianity, the effort to follow
Jesus by the power and guidance
of the Holy Spirit, so that all
people may be reconciled to God
and each other in Christ and so
that God may reign on earth as in
heaven.
The following was originally
presented at the Annual
Conference of the Episcopal
Cursillo Movement. In order to
simplify the presentation, I’ve
used only direct quotations from
our Presiding Bishop.
Since movements are bigger
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than any one person, we might
also ask what we think the Jesus
Movement means or ought to
mean.   Where do we see the
Jesus Movement breaking out in
our world, especially the local
contexts where we live and work
and serve and pray?     words ‘Follow me.’”
nothing new.“The Jesus
Movement is not new—it’s the
deep roots of who we ARE. 
#episcopal”
“What we’re talking about is a
community of people who are
committed by their baptism, as
baptized disciples of Jesus
Christ, to live the way of Jesus.”
" The Jesus Movement is
all about following Jesus
(=discipleship).“God came
among us in the person of Jesus
of Nazareth to show us the Way.  
He came to show us the Way to
life, the Way to love.  He came to
show us the Way beyond what
can be the nightmares of our own
devising and into the dream of
God’s intending.  That’s why,
when Jesus called his first
followers he did it with the simple

! The Jesus Movement is
all about love.“On these two—
love of God and love of your
neighbor—hang, hinge, depend
ALL the law and the prophets.  welcomes you” – ALL of you, not
Everything Moses taught.  as merely a church slogan, but
Everything the prophets
thundered forth about justice.
Everything in the Bible.  True
religion.  It’s about love of God
and the neighbor.  If it’s not about
love, it’s not about God. This way
of love is the way of Jesus. This
is the heart of the Jesus
movement.”
The Jesus Movement leads to
reconciliation and right
relationship (God, each other,
the earth).“Now is our time to go.   imitates or judges anyone else.  the other way around.  The
To go into the world to share the
good news of God and Jesus
Christ.  To go into the world and
help to be agents and
instruments of God’s
reconciliation.   To go into the
world, let the world know that
there is a God who loves us, a
God who will not let us go, and
that that love can set us all free.”
“Racial reconciliation is just the
beginning for the hard and holy
work of reconciliation that
realizes justice but really across
all the borders and boundaries
that divide the human family of
God.”
 “What is the Jesus Movement?  person of Jesus of Nazareth to
We’re following Jesus into loving,
liberating, and life-giving
relationship with God, with each
other, and with the earth.”  intends. He came to change the
" The Jesus Movement
involves a Universal (Catholic)
vision–ALL MEANS ALL!
“Jesus once declared, in the
language of the Hebrew
prophets, that God’s ‘house shall
be a house of prayer for ALL
nations’ (Mk 11:17). He invited
and welcomed ALL who would
follow, saying, ‘come to me ALL
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who are weary and are carrying
heavy burdens’ (Mt. 11:28).  We
therefore assert and we believe
that “the Episcopal Church
as a reflection of what we believe
Jesus teaches us and at the core
of the movement he began in the
first century. The Episcopal
Church welcomes ALL. ALL of
us!”
! The Jesus Movement
involves mission and
evangelism. “I’m talking about a
way of evangelism that is
genuine and authentic to us as
Episcopalians, not a way that
A way of evangelism that is really
about sharing good news.  A way
evangelism that is deeply
grounded in the love of God that
we’ve learned from Jesus.  A way
of evangelism that is as much
about listening and learning from
the story of who God is in
another person’s life as it is about
sharing our own story.  A way of
evangelism that is really about
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helping others find their way to a
relationship with God without our
trying to control the outcome.  A
way of evangelism that’s
authentic to us.  We can do that.”
" The Jesus Movement is
itself dynamic and evolving.
“I really do believe we need to
see ourselves as a movement—a
Jesus movement—rather than as
an institution.  That’s what Jesus
was about.  He inaugurated a
movement to make God’s dream
happen.  To see ourselves this
way changes everything.  It
means our institutional
configurations must be designed
to serve the movement and not
movement serves life.  There is
no life in serving the institution.”
“This is a way for our particular
time.  Each new age and each
new generation must discern how
it will faithfully live out the Gospel
of Jesus.  But this represents a
way for this particular period of
time, and nothing is final, nothing
is settled except for the kingdom
of God. We are a movement after
all.”
The Jesus Movement is meant
to change the world. “If you
want to change the world, follow
Jesus!”
 “God came among us in the
change the world, to change it
from the nightmare it often can
be into the dream that God
world, and we have been
baptized into the Triune God and
summoned to be disciples and
followers of this Jesus and to
participate in God’s work, God’s
mission of changing and
transforming this world.  We are
the Jesus Movement now.”
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Kelsey Leslie will be going on a

pilgrimage with the Episcopal
Diocese of Texas in August,
before she starts college at
Texas A&M University at their
Veterinary Medicine and
Biomedical Science College.  Sisters! Annette and Alison -
Her focus will be in Biomedical dropping off younger sister,
Science.  Prayers for her and Antonella at Camp Allen.
her fellow pilgrims would be
appreciated.

Caroline will start her teaching

career at Sealy High School!

Elise Ford made Kathleen Kelly traveled to Europe this

the President’s List summer to see her son John. She sent us this
at UNT with all beautiful photo of Albany Anglican Church
A’s for the Spring in Copenhagen.
2019 semester. She
plans to graduate
in December 2020
with a degree in
Anthropology.

Beth Woodson was ordained to the diaconate in June.

She will serve as the Deacon in Charge at St. Martin’s,
Copperas Cove.

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August
Birthdays
8/01 Elise Ford
8/07 Marco Vazquez
8/10 Jim Carr
8/15 Jean Cargill
Laura Farnsworth
8/20 Kathleen Kelly
8/23 Tim Gassiott
8/20 Kelsey Leslie
8/29 Jim Moore
Anniversaries
8/16 Jim & Sugie Sartwelle
8/28 Denise & Don Darracq
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August Church Schedule
Sunday, August 7, 10 a.m., 8th
Sunday after Pentecost, Holy
Eucharist Rite II, Rev. Eric
LeBrocq, Jr., Celebrant
Sunday, August 14, 10 a.m.,9th
Sunday after Pentecost, Morning Prayer, J.D. Sartwelle, Jr., Officiant
Sunday, August 21, 10:00 a.m., 10th Sunday after Pentecost, Holy Eucharist Rite
II, Rev. Eric LeBrocq, Jr., Celebrant
Sunday, August 28, 10 a.m., 11th Sunday after Pentecost, Morning Prayer, Jeff
Whitzel, Officiant
August • Gloria Noy
18, Sunday, Vestry Meeting • LaJuan Farrell
11:30, Parish Office • Fr. Eric
September • Carla Beckendorff
14, Saturday, ECW Meeting 10 • Cody Childress
am, Parish Hall
• Fr. Sam Todd
15, Sunday, Vestry Meeting
11:30, Parish Office • Linda Kellner
16, Monday, ECW Luncheon
@ the Oaks We received a message
from Fr. Sam Todd -
October Thank you for keeping
6, Sunday, Blessing of the me on your prayer list.
Animals The prayers are working.
The lung cancer is not
growing.
Cody will head back to
the Mayo Clinic on Aug.
11 for follow-up
treatment. Keep praying
for him and his
caregivers, wife, Maddy
and mom Candace.
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Some of the residents of the Oaks joined us for hotdogs and ice
cream in celebration of July 4th, Independence Day.

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St. John’s is filled with many talented individuals. Marian tends our rose
garden, Kathleen Kelly and Annie Smith maintain the flowers in the
fountain garden. Our beautiful gardens were photographed by Carol Heath.
The delicious cakes were made by Brenda Vazquez. Carol Awbrey recently
presented Candice Childress with prayer shawls for Cody, Candice and
Maddy. This is just the tip of the iceberg when counting who helps out St.
John’s on a regular basis.

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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Marfa.

Their welcome sign reads:
“ We extend a special welcome to those who are single,
married, divorces, widowed, trans, gay, confused, filthy rich,
comfortable, or dirt poor.
We extend a special welcome to those who are crying new-
borns, skinny as a rake or could afford to lose a few pounds.
You’re welcome if you are Old Marfa, New Marfa, Not
Marfa, or just passing by.
We welcome you if you can sing like Pavarotti or can’t carry
a note in a bucket. You’re welcome here if you’re ‘just
browsing,’ just woke up or just got out of prison. We don’t
care if you’re more Christian than our Presiding Bishop, or
haven’t been in church since little Jack’s christening.
We extend a special welcome to those who are over 60 but
not grown up yet, and to teenagers who are growing up too
fast. We welcome keep-fit moms, football dads, ranchers,
starving artists, tree-huggers, latte-sippers, vegetarians,
junk-food eaters.
We welcome those who are in recovery or still addicted. We
welcome you if you’re having problems or you’re down in
the dumps or if you don’t like ‘organized religion.’ We’ve
been there too!
If you blew all of your money on fantasy football, you’re
welcome here. We offer a welcome to those who think the
earth is flat, ‘work to hard,’ don’t work, can’t spell, or
because grandma is in town and wanted to go to church.
We welcome those who are inked, pierced or both. We offer a
special welcome to those who could use a prayer right now,
had religion shoved down their throat as a kid or got lost on
the far West Texas roads and wound up here by mistake. We
welcome tourists, seekers and doubters, bleeding
hearts...and you!”

Bishop Duncan
& Freya
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Garage Sale Chic
In June, St. John’s ECW hosted a
luncheon for the ECW members of St.
Mary’s in Bellville and St. John’s in
Columbus. It was a great success and
we will be looking for ways to work
together in the future. See the photo
below and more on the next page.
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Thank all of the people that made our garage sale
a HUGE SUCCESS!!!! We made after all
expenses around $2400.00
Thanks to all for their support, friendship, laughter
during this event as it made all the hard work so
much more fun. You really get to know each other
when you send a bunch of women to a garage
sale!!
A special thanks to Annie for all her hard work
organizing, online sales, and her donations.
Yeah for us!!
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Congrat-
ulations!
David &
Rilla
along
with their
friends
and
family
celebrated
their 50th
wedding
anniver-
sary in
June.

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Upcoming Events at
Historic St. John’s Episcopal Church

10 am
St. John’s will host Giving Thanks is
ECW meeting in the ECW will have an our annual Blessing our Annual
Parish Hall. Outreach Luncheon of the Animals in celebration of
All women of the at the Oaks. The Levine Park on thanksgiving to
Parish are members luncheon is for the Sunday, October, 6. God for the blessing
of the Episcopal individuals who we Please volunteer for he has bestowed on
Church Women and provide food to in this wonderful our congregation. It
all are invited to our Food Pantry. event and be sure to is a great time for
attend this meeting. We are in need of invite your friends Fellowship as we
Remember to canned meats, and neighbors. celebrate a
donate to the sugarfree cookies
Eucharist service
Christmas in July and peanut butter,
and eat a meal
box in the Parish individual rice
together. More
Hall! meals and oatmeal.
details to follow.
St. John’s Episcopal Church is located at Hwy 36 N & 6th St., Sealy, TX Phone: 979-885-2359

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