Christ Kaleidoscope

Come to support my church’s mission team to Cambodia!

Hi Christ Kaleidoscope family! Come to our Good Friday service this evening, 7:45-9:00PM at 180 Augustine, Irvine. We’ll be reading through the Passion narrative (here, passion means the suffering and death of Jesus) from Luke’s Gospel (Luke 22:14-23:56). Various members from our community will be reading the different parts, with some songs peppered throughout.

http://www.theoikonomist.com/?p=977 This year, our winter retreat centered on the theme of "The Church as a Story-Formed Community." Our pastor Ken Hsu has written a beautiful recap about our recent retreat, so to encourage our community and friends to continue the conversation about what it means to be the church who lives to carry the story of Jesus. ... "...Cannibalism becomes an apt metaphor for what happens when we do not shape our lives around God’s good story of abundance and grace. That when we allow the story of the world, the story of sin and scarcity to shape us we cannot help but have our desires deformed in such a way that we devour any thing and any one for our own benefit. Interestingly enough, as depressing as it was, many of us also found ourselves strangely warmed that night. Inspired even. We experienced the reality that when we are able to see the world for what it is or more accurately, when we are able to see sin in all its disfiguring ugliness we are able to recognize just how wonderfully ridiculous the gospel is." Grace and peace.