"The fire must be kept buring on the altar continuously..."—Leviticus 6:13
Marina: people love the "movie Hollywood hates"
To Save Lives Beyond Church Walls | Our Mission
The nationally acclaimed movie "To Save a Life" screened at Marina Cathedral September 12, 2010, with a good turn out and excellent response to the movie. Called "the movie Hollywood hates," the audience seemed to love it.
Known as "a church without walls," the Marina Cathedral congregation meets at 6161 W. Centinela Avenue, Culver City, CA 90230, in the facilities of the Radisson Hotel. The creation is our sanctuary.
Having deep interest in all God created we have a special interest in people. "The Lord...who created the heavens...fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited" (Isaiah 45:18). God created earth just so as to place people in it to enjoy all he made.
How tragic then that people lose hope, dispair, and harm themselves and others, too. "To Save a Life" addresses this issue and offers helpful, hopeful, and exciting answers in a touching, challenging, and fascinating story.
Come see for yourself on September 12!
We are Marina—the creation is our sanctuary
Following Jesus beyond church walls | Mission matters
Meeting in a hotel you have to know our focus is not the accoutrements of pulpits, altars, and stained glass windows—or carpeted floors and padded pews.
Although, the floor is carpeted.
The hotel sees to that.
What matters to us is celebrating the redemptive plan of God involving his whole creation. No sanctuary made with human hands is big enough to contain that. So we meet weekly for worship in a central, convenient spot order to share together in the life of Jesus through the Holy Spirit in the word of God, praise, prayer, and fellowship. But the creation is our sanctuary.
So upon parting company on a Sunday, we remain in our sanctuary through the week, filled with awe at the wonder of God’s good creation, even though saddened by the wounds inflicted by human carelessness. However, beyond the awe as we part we also step into our mission of taking the good news of Jesus’ victory to all of creation.
"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’ " (Isaiah 52:7)
The good news is that Jesus is Lord and Christ, that is, Messiah, who fulfills all the promise God has made to his people in the covenants from the beginning of time to the present. The central promise is not that you go to heaven when you die, but that Planet Earth belongs to you, you are an heir of the world—if you belong to Jesus and bear witness to this by sharing in mission with the family of God.
We are this family.
Of course, the family is bigger than us. You will find other segments of God’s family meeting for worship elsewhere, many in fine, man-made sanctuaries. We love these brothers and sisters wherever they are around the world and speak blessing upon them.
We are unique, however, in our God-given mission. We see our task as not getting people ready to leave Planet Earth but to live in it knowing that Jesus is Lord of it. The difference this makes is profound; and in fact you can only be ready to leave when you are first ready to live in a sphere encircling spiritual, material, social, and environmental concerns over which Jesus is Lord.
We believe in caring for ourselves, one another, and our world because we care for Jesus who first cared for us.
Of Magic Lanterns and Missional Communities
On God’s silence | On human hearing You’ve heard of magic lanterns, and missional communities have been a hot topic for quite awhile. But what does one have to do with the other? Not much, unless someone makes a deliberate connection. Or unless Joe and Melissa Johnson of Watching Theology, found on Steve Brown, Etc., reminds us quite unintentionally that they might have quite a bit in common; and in reminding us, offer a graphic lesson in how to do church for the church that really wants to be Jesus’ church—which is, by the way, a missional community. However, such lessons were not the intent, as far as I can tell, of Watching Theology in their review of Winter Light, a film by the noted Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), who made a career of convinving us God was gone—away on business, as Tom Waits sings. The review was just the first thoughtful piece in an ongoing "Silence of God" series that film, theology, and philosophy buffs should check out. Even so, if you make a ripple in the pond you have to accept disturbing a leaf floating by as a consequence. And if that leaf floats a little sideways anyway...
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