The foundation of the Kingdom of God is the Incarnation. And this is expressed to us through the sacramental principle: God uses physical objects, and other human beings  to convey his Person, Presence, and Power.   Christ (rhymes with "wrist") John Otto leads a community of artists and creative people called Belonging House. Each week we gather as a community for Beth Charashim: the House of Artisans. For more information about Belonging House Media, go to our website, https://Belonging.house.   Christ John Otto writes on Substack. Get his Friday email here: https://christjohnotto.substack.com Our community connects on MightyNetworks here: https://belonging-house.mn.co If this teaching is helpful, please help keep it going by buying a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto 

  People love theology, and we could talk about theology all night, but nobody cares. Nobody cares about the theology of the resurrection. Nobody cares about the substitutionary atonement. Nobody cares about all the meaning  and layers  in this Passover Vigil.   Because, at the end of the day, we are all like Mary at the tomb.   We weep. We are alone. We are disappointed and lost. And we hear a familiar voice behind us. “Woman, why are you weeping?” And Jesus  shows us his hands and his feet and his side and says, See. I did all this for love. Christ (rhymes with "wrist") John Otto leads a community of artists and creative people called Belonging House. Each week we gather as a community for Beth Charashim: the House of Artisans. For more information about Belonging House Media, go to our website, https://Belonging.house.   Christ John Otto writes on Substack. Get his Friday email here: https://christjohnotto.substack.com Our community connects on MightyNetworks here: https://belonging-house.mn.co If this teaching is helpful, please help keep it going by buying a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto 

This tree that was the source of death, the sign of ultimate suffering, the tree of injustice and accusation, the tree of cursing, and abandonment, of nakedness and shame, and the tree of bitterness, This tree in the garden: the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil, has now become a tree of life. Blessed is the wood that brings righteousness. Christ (rhymes with "wrist") John Otto leads a community of artists and creative people called Belonging House. Each week we gather as a community for Beth Charashim: the House of Artisans. For more information about Belonging House Media, go to our website, https://Belonging.house.   Christ John Otto writes on Substack. Get his Friday email here: https://christjohnotto.substack.com Our community connects on MightyNetworks here: https://belonging-house.mn.co If this teaching is helpful, please help keep it going by buying a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto #cross #redemption #newcovenant #Jesus

Jesus spent his whole life pointing toward this event. This was what he longed to do, establish a new covenant with us.  Give us this bread of the new covenant, where God lives in us by the Holy Spirit and does the work through us so that we can do more than real things in this earth. We are not mentally remembering Jesus, we are reconnecting to the covenant and all it's promises: God is in us, and physically we are taking Jesus into us. And when we take Jesus into us, Jesus in us by the power and presence of the Holy Spirit gives us the power to love. And in that place, we can ask anything in his name and our Father will get the glory. Check out my new book Artists at a Shift in Time at https://tinyurl.com/5chwxxuy. Christ (rhymes with "wrist") John Otto leads a community of artists and creative people called Belonging House. Each week we gather as a community for Beth Charashim: the House of Artisans. For more information about Belonging House Media, go to our website, https://Belonging.house.   Christ John Otto writes on Substack. Get his Friday email here: https://christjohnotto.substack.com Our community connects on MightyNetworks here: https://belonging-house.mn.co If this teaching is helpful, please help keep it going by buying a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto

We forget our story, and we forget who we are, and where we came from. This story, if you are a Christian is your story. This story is your identity and this story is where you belong. And this story makes one thing clear: you matter to God, because, as St. Augustine said, if you were the only person on planet earth needing redemption our Lord Jesus Christ would still go to the cross. He loves you that much.   Check out my new book Artists at a Shift in Time at https://tinyurl.com/5chwxxuy. Christ (rhymes with "wrist") John Otto leads a community of artists and creative people called Belonging House. Each week we gather as a community for Beth Charashim: the House of Artisans. For more information about Belonging House Media, go to our website, https://Belonging.house.   Christ John Otto writes on Substack. Get his Friday email here: https://christjohnotto.substack.com Our community connects on MightyNetworks here: https://belonging-house.mn.co If this teaching is helpful, please help keep it going by buying a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto

This week is an excerpt from an extended teaching on the origins of the Eucharist. Included is a bit of teaching on the New Covenant, Praying in Faith, and some questions from our community. Check out my new book Artists at a Shift in Time at https://tinyurl.com/5chwxxuy. Christ (rhymes with "wrist") John Otto leads a community of artists and creative people called Belonging House. Each week we gather as a community for Beth Charashim: the House of Artisans. For more information about Belonging House Media, go to our website, https://Belonging.house.   Christ John Otto writes on Substack. Get his Friday email here: https://christjohnotto.substack.com Our community connects on MightyNetworks here: https://belonging-house.mn.co If this teaching is helpful, please help keep it going by buying a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto  

God so loved the world that his son became a snake for you, the lowest of the low, and in doing this, the Son has destroyed forever the power of the fiery serpent who deceived Adam and Eve and is out deceiving people today. Check out my new book Artists at a Shift in Time at https://tinyurl.com/5chwxxuy. Christ (rhymes with "wrist") John Otto leads a community of artists and creative people called Belonging House. Each week we gather as a community for Beth Charashim: the House of Artisans. For more information about Belonging House Media, go to our website, https://Belonging.house.   Christ John Otto writes on Substack. Get his Friday email here: https://christjohnotto.substack.com Our community connects on MightyNetworks here: https://belonging-house.mn.com If this teaching is helpful, please help keep it going by buying a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto  

The promise of the New Covenant is you can be holy, you are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and you are a member of a kingdom of priests. Check out my new book at https://tinyurl.com/5chwxxuy. Christ (rhymes with "wrist") John Otto leads a community of artists and creative people called Belonging House. Each week we gather as a community for Beth Charashim: the House of Artisans. For more information about Belonging House Media, go to our website, https://Belonging.house.  Christ John Otto writes on Substack. Get his Friday email here: https://christjohnotto.substack.com Our community connects on MightyNetworks here: https://belonging-house.mn.co If this teaching is helpful, please help keep it going by buying a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto  

Once we remove the barriers to healing, then healing can begin.   Understanding our Identity in Christ as bearers of light gives us the ability to pray for the light to overcome the darkness. Christ (rhymes with "wrist") John Otto leads a community of artists and creative people called Belonging House. Each week we gather as a community for Beth Charashim: the House of Artisans. For more information about Belonging House Media, go to our website, https://Belonging.house.  Christ John Otto writes on Substack. Get his Friday email here: https://christjohnotto.substack.com Our community connects on MightyNetworks here: https://belonging-house.mn.co If this teaching is helpful, please help keep it going by buying a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto #healing #wholeness #light #prayer

Once we remove the barriers to healing, then healing can begin.  We turn to God, change our thinking, and confess our sin.  And in this we begin the process of healing. Christ (rhymes with "wrist") John Otto leads a community of artists and creative people called Belonging House. Each week we gather as a community for Beth Charashim: the House of Artisans. For more information about Belonging House Media, go to our website, https://Belonging.house.  Christ John Otto writes on Substack. Get his Friday email here: https://christjohnotto.substack.com Our community connects on MightyNetworks here: https://belonging-house.mn.co If this teaching is helpful, please help keep it going by buying a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto #healing #wholeness #forgiveness