The Church: A Feast-Factory of Time
From Moscow, ID to Brazil: Christ All in All!
Nuntium
I have just returned from Moscow, ID, a few days ago. I never cease to be amazed by the productivity of the little town. While CNN and its crew gave us some free advertisement, the folks in Moscow have moved on to a hundred other things. They are not looking at those things that are behind. To my knowledge, there are nine CREC churches in Moscow, which hold approximately 12-15 services each Sunday. The main church where Doug preaches has three services on Sunday morning. God is doing good things.
My own trip to the northwest ended with a flight delay, which pushed back my arrival time to 1 a.m. in Moscow. I woke up early at 7:00 a.m. for meetings that lasted until 9:30 p.m. Suffice to say, my strength did not come from earthly things. On Friday, I had a full day of board meetings, followed by the New Saint Andrew’s Convocation. Of note was the promotion of my good friend, David Erb, to Senior Fellow at New Saint Andrews College:
I returned late Saturday. It was good to be back and prepare for the Lord’s Day together with the Brito tribe.
Peter Leithart and I will be heading to Brazil in a couple of weeks for the Typology Conference. Currently, over 200 people are registered for the conference. This promises to be a grand time. We will also be celebrating the 10th anniversary of our CREC plant in South Brazil.
Notations
Christians come into worship to inhabit time. When we forsake worship, we lose track of time; we live in a foreign time zone. But when we enter his courts with praise, we come into heavenly time; a time when the Church communes with the King of time, Jesus Christ. Worship allows everyone to be in the same rhythm, marching with the beat of the liturgy.
The pre-resurrection church was in the dark. They couldn’t read the time accurately, and everyone’s clocks were set according to their own schemes. The false teachers drew us away from real-time. They perverted the rules of time. They made up time and forsook the time of the Torah and of the prophets.
But the resurrection of Jesus gave us time; without perversion. And so the Church has been feasting since AD 33 with gusto! And as long as she communes with Jesus and continues in this long-time-tested tradition of gathering and lifting their voice, she won’t lose track of time.
The Church is a feast-factory; she produces clocks for a world gone mad, a world lost in sadness that arranges life according to her own time zone. The world has no sense of time, and so she makes her own time. But God has ordained one time; one day, to come as one. While the world fabricates parties to make sense of time, the church parties on since that glorious day when time saw a stone rolled away and a resurrected Lord triumph over the gates of hell.
Time is on our side. And therefore, let us join the feast! Christ has died! Christ is risen! Christ will come again!
Season 6, Episode 6: From Private Piety to Cosmic Lordship
In this episode, we’re talking about the Lordship of Jesus—not as some abstract, future hope, but as a present, concrete reality. Too often, modern evangelicalism has reduced Christ’s Lordship to the realm of private salvation, personal piety, and quiet devotion. But the Bible paints a much bigger picture.
Paul tells us in Romans that Abraham was promised the world as his inheritance. Salvation is cosmic. Christ’s resurrection victory is undoing sin across creation. And as Abraham Kuyper famously said, there is not one square inch of human existence over which Christ does not declare, “Mine.”
When we treat Lordship as merely individual, we lose courage, we retreat into privatized religion, and we avoid confronting the idols of our culture. But when we confess that Jesus is Lord over family, church, state, and the whole created order, then our faith takes flesh. It marches, sings, builds, and leaves an imprint of righteousness wherever it goes.
This is no Gnostic mantra. “Jesus is Lord” is our dogma, and it means the earth belongs to Him and His people. The spoils of His victory are not hidden away for later—they are for His church to claim here and now.
Omnia et in omnibus Christus. Christ all and in all.
Uriesou T. Brito
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