Sacredness of Creation | Beyond the Walls

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In the beginning, God created everything and declared it good, according to the creation story found at the beginning of Genesis. This famous passage is retold at the beginning of the Gospel of John, which identifies God’s Word as Christ who is “coming into the world.” The authors of the gospel go on to say that “God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” This reverence expresses the inherent “Sacredness of Creation” — the second of nine Enduring Principles in our series. All creation, both the seen and the unseen, is connected, and we join with God as stewards of care and hope for all creation.

Beyond the Walls – Sacredness of Creation. We invite you to share this hour of reflection, prayer, meditation, music, and fellowship with the Beyond the Walls global community on 📅 Sunday, September 7, 2025. You can participate via live video as usual or join us in person at: 💒 320 Richmond Street East, Suite 101, Toronto, ON M5A 1P9.

We will share communion 🍞🍇 with all those participating live from around the world 🌏

📅 Sunday, Sep 7, 2025
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🎵 All music performed by the Beyond the Walls Choir and @MichaelKarpowicz. Copyrighted music with permission by OneLicense A-739874

🌐 Beyond the Walls is an online worship service with live ministry from around the world. Our global congregation gathers every Sunday at 12:00 pm ET and 6:00 pm ET. We’re an inclusive, non-dogmatic, progressive Christian community that affirms all gender identities and expressions, embraces interfaith and skeptical perspectives, and rejects literal interpretations of scripture.

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$1 & 2 Corinthians: The Story of a Divided Church Resurrection denial, sexual propriety, spiritual powers, social class, and factionalism were fracturing the church in Corinth. Paul’s letters to the Corinthians aim at reconciling this Christian community while expounding some of the most practical theology contained in the New Testament. What was really happening in this church? Why did Paul write multiple letters to them? Corinth had been destroyed by Rome in 146 BCE and refounded as a Roman colony in 44 BCE, with settlers drawn from across the empire. By Paul’s time, it was a major commercial hub where Roman, Greek, and Jewish populations intersected. That diversity is reflected in the church itself: factions formed around competing leaders such as Paul, Apollos, and Cephas; others promoted rival forms of authority, rhetoric, and spiritual status. The letters address disputes over patronage, social hierarchy, sexual ethics, communal meals, and resurrection, while 1 Clement shows that similar conflicts continued into the late first century. In this live lecture, John Hamer of Toronto Centre Place will examine the history of Corinth and the rise of its Christian community. We will consider how the issues Paul and others address in their letters to the Corinthian church reveal patterns of factionalism and theological conflict that continue to shape the development of Christianity today. Sources we will cover include: ● 1 Corinthians ● 2 Corinthians ● 1 Clement ● Acts 18 ● Strabo, Geographica (Geography) ● Pausanias, Description of Greece ● Erastus inscription ● Seneca (Letters, Moral Essays) ● Dionysius of Corinth, in Eusebius (Ecclesiastical History 4.23) Join the livestream to participate in the discussion and to ask questions of our lecturer during the Q&A. This lecture is part of our series exploring Christianity and the Bible from an academic perspective through history, mythology, archaeology, theology, and biblical studies. 📚 Browse our catalogue of free lectures at https://www.centreplace.ca/lectures Your generous support allows us to offer these lectures at no cost. Please consider making a donation (tax deductible in the US and Canada): ❤️ https://www.centreplace.ca/donate$

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