Articles written by Fred Liggin

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   Turning the great commandment into the Church’s great commission

   By Fred Liggin and ChristianWeek on Jun 6, 2017

   I’ve been thinking about how the Christian life has been anchored in what Christians (mostly preachers and scholars) have branded as the “Great Commission” (Matthew 28:16ff), despite the fact the Scriptures never explicitly or implicitly refer to it in that…Read More→

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   Reordering our lives around Jesus’s table

   By Fred Liggin and ChristianWeek on Nov 23, 2016

   In my church family, we have a eucharistic orientation to our weekly worship gathering, which moves us directly from the proclamation of the Word (sermon, teaching or open conversation) to the Table. We no longer offer an “altar call” (in my tradition…Read More→