Vision Glorious

For the last few weeks on Vision Glorious, our posting schedule has been a bit slow and sporadic. One of the main reasons for that is because of the work that I’ve been doing over at a new blog called From Israel to Italy.

I2I as we call it has a different focus & setup than Vision Glorious. I2I is a co-authored blog with a close friend of mine and partner in our Church, Roberto Battistuzzi. Its focus is more of revealing Roman culture & Catholicism in the light of a Biblical worldview from the vantage point of living in Italy & seeing it close-up. So, our motto for that blog is Revealing the Jesus of Jerusalem by Exposing the jesus of Rome.  Jesus is from Jerusalem and we believe that Rome presents another Christ altogether. We have noticed that many Christians don’t know or don’t see the workings of Rome. You’ll have to check it out!

We’re still steaming ahead here at VG. Roberto and I realized that we were coming across so many insights into the Italian culture, Romanism, & the Messiah from Nazareth that we wanted to write those out and share those in a different context — so as not to confuse the mission here at Vision Glorious.

We’re still digging into True Christian Community. We know it’s a huge topic. Honestly, I thought we would have shifted our writing topic by now and returned to TCC later. But the juices keep flowing and I don’t want to miss these valuable principles before moving on. So, stick with us and we’ll keep striving to open the treasure troves of what Christ desires to do in & through His Church.

Dear Friends of VG… We’ve been out of our home area for a little bit and we’ll be back to posting soon. Thank you for your patience. I (Rob) have been chewing on writing an article out of James 2 on the subjects of true Christian community & the sins of partiality. Also, I’m wanting to post an article on how the highlight of the sacrificial system of the Old Testament was all about community — God with His people and His people with each other in holy community. I’ll also be adding another Bonhoeffer Bonus (a chewable “Bon-Bon”) on community shortly. Deitrich did such an incredible job in defining true Christian community that we can’t pass it up… It’s ecclesiological nectar!

We’ve officially launched our new cooperative blog-forum during the 1st week of March, 2006. This is a site exploring the three cultures of the Church — large group, small group, and one-to-one. You can read all about this blog-forum to catch the Vision. Look around. Interact through comments or the shoutbox. Bookmark us. Subscribe to the RSS feed. Tell others that can benefit from a site like this. And most of all, keep coming back. We’ll be working to post something weekly (if not more) for you.