Welcoming is good, but it often means “passively waiting,” writes Joseph Yoo. Besides being welcoming, congregations “need to be invitational,” he adds. “It means going out into the world, making contact with people and building relationships with them.” To read more, click here.
Invited into embodied relationship
Installed Sept. 19 as bishop of the ELCA Metropolitan Chicago Synod, Erik Christensen believes that the church needs to equip its members to extend invitations to their communities in ways…