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Just a Quick Note

by Dee Mimbs on March 17, 2009 · 7 comments

in Blog, Christian Living, Church, Family, Fellowship, Love, Uncategorized

Shannon and I have been out of town for about a week and a half. I had a math conference in Gainesville, Florida for a few days. On our way back to Ga, we visited some friends in Valdosta (Jason, Candy and Joshua). Then, we went to visit our families in Vidalia, GA while Shannon [...]

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Low Carb Church

by Shannon Mimbs on February 16, 2009 · 7 comments

in Book Review, Christian Living, Church, Family, Fellowship, Love

Today, I would like to continue our journey through Vondey’s work, People of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology.  In previous posts (Feb-8 Theological Imagination, Feb-9 Imagine That, Feb-11 To Image or Not to Image), we surveyed the importance and role of images in the Church.  Chapter two is called Companionship: The Social Nature of the People of [...]

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To Image or Not to Image

by Shannon Mimbs on February 11, 2009 · 2 comments

in Book Review, Church, Discernment, Resources, Theology

Christian Greetings!
In conclusion to our survey of chapter one of Vondey’s, People of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology, I have listed his six principles of using biblical images.  

Principles for the Use of Biblical Images:

Images must emerge from within the community of faith.

The images must emphasize the ecumenical unity of the Church.

The images must complement one another [...]

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Imagine That

by Shannon Mimbs on February 9, 2009 · 3 comments

in Book Review, Church, Discernment, Resources, Theology

Continuing our exploration of chapter one of Vondey’s work, People of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology…
Vondey explores three functions of images: imaginative, illustrative and instrumental.
Imaginative function of Images – Herein, images serve “as vehicles of emotions, associations, and feelings; they serve not only as an informative but also an expressive medium” (p. 18).  Meaning, they help to [...]

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Theological Imagination

by Shannon Mimbs on February 8, 2009 · 9 comments

in Church, Prayer, Testimony, Theology, Uncategorized

Hey all!  
I have been working through Wolfgang Vondey’s newest book, People of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology.  (“Ecclesiology” means “the study of the Church as a biblical and theological topic”)  Now the Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Regent University’s School of Divinity, Vondey is a COGTS alumnus.  He is originally from Germany and was raised Roman Catholic. [...]

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Who Are We?

by Dee Mimbs on January 15, 2009 · 7 comments

in Bible, Church, Healing, Jesus Christ, Love, Reconciliation

I have often heard people talk about the God of the Bible – how we know who he is by what he does. 
We see the many times that God provided for his people – the ram for Abraham’s sacrifice, in the desert when Israel was wandering, his instruction to Israel to provide for the widow [...]

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Closing the Gap

by Shannon Mimbs on December 2, 2008 · 8 comments

in Bible, Church, Theology

It’s been a while since my last post.  Just a few more weeks of assignments and, by God’s grace, I’ll enter into the great post-grad transition…
While trying to remain breathing on the treadmill tonight, I was listening to Eugene Peterson’s audiobook, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, on Dee’s iPod (which I borrowed since it’s [...]

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I Want to Be Relevant

by Dee Mimbs on November 24, 2008 · 10 comments

in Church, Jesus Christ, Theology

I want to be relevant.  When I teach my Wednesday night class full of 9-12 year old girls, I want to be relevant.  I don’t want them looking at me and thinking, “Mrs. Dee has absolutely no idea what I’m going through.”  But, the fact is that while I am not too old, much has [...]

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