Put your toe into the water...
Find your radical path

Convincing people to join in our spirit at a time when Christianity is so misunderstood is challenging. Feeling our spirit is not difficult at all. Describing it in words is another story. If you are not able to put your head in your heart, invite your mind to journey with your spirit, we can do very little to persuade you to live fully alongside community. So we are suggesting a different road. We are inviting you to put the tip of
your toe in the waters by initially doing some simple things on your own. We invite you to use this web site as your church. 

How will this work? Each week, we will publish the order of service that we use for that week's worship. So each week you can share our joy with us in a tiny way and begin to understand what a church is for. You
might even to get to know us. 

In these messages, we hope to convey a Christian language that is very
different from contemporary uses of the language. We also feature other resources for you should you decide you want to explore more on your own. 
 
If you have read all of this page thus far, you are probably getting an
impression that we are a very very different church. But that is not really true. We are a community of people reformed and reforming to find God's presence in our lives. That process of discovery is and has always been a fascinating journey. We know there are people like you out there who can sense the Christian spirit. What may be missing is an understanding that makes sense to you that goes with that spirit.

At Tippe, we want you to know that the way you understand it is important to us.  We take seriously that we are all of one
spirit...not necessarily of one mind. Go for it. Read, study, and
eventually come visit us...

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Take a moment to review our Current Worship Theme.

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Resources for You

Many of us at Tippecanoe Church who have started our journey found it helpful to read and study works by some of today's most provocative authors. Their books are easy to read and most are available in e-book format. These authors are:

John Shelby Spong, author of Why Christianity Must Change or Die and Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism

John Dominic Crossan, author of The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer 

Marcus Borg, author of Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power-And How They Can be Restored 
 
We also frequently access the resources at: The Center For Progressive Christianity

We invite you to read:

Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World by Bishop John Shelby Spong
A good way to start to see how the Bible was constructed.  Bishop Spong provides a summary of each of the more important books of the Old Testament and New Testament. You will not become Bible literate but it provides a base to start a journey.

What We Believe Does Not Matter  
An essay published in 2011 in the BBC News Magazine. It discusses belief and what is its relationship to religion. This is also a topic that Marcus Borg writes about.

Readings and Prayers for this week