Barry L. Vennard of Unity Church of Omaha 's new-agey take on Easter

[billiefan2000]

I mentioned another post 2 omaha area pastors who's articles talk about the real meaning of easter

Rev. Dan Delzell and Rev. Thomas Schmitt of the Omaha area messages on Easter



Barry vennard and the Universalist New-agey Unity church who was also in the from the pulpit section of the secular paper

the omaha world herald paper is another story


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Barry L. Vennard, minister, Unity Church of Omaha

The Holy week at Unity Church of Omaha culminates with an Easter flower service Sunday at 10:30 a.m. The service celebrates the resurrection of a new, spiritually awakened sense of self in human beings. This new divine sense of self was demonstrated by Jesus, the Christ, one of the first human beings who fully understood and expressed what it meant to be consciously at one with God and creation.

The Holy week at Unity began with a Palm Sunday communion service in memory of Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem and his celebration of Passover, the Last Supper. The Passover ritual is the retelling of the ancient story of Jesus’ people, the Israelites, and their journey to freedom from enslavement in Egypt. At this Passover dinner, Jesus introduces a new story and a new journey to freedom. It’s a story about the human potential to awaken to the presence of God as the very essence of one’s being. This awakening would bring freedom from enslavement to self-centered fear; freedom from the illusion of separation from God (love); and freedom from human created suffering. This awakening has the power to transform human beings into conscious, individual embodiments of God as Jesus had become. It is the Christ potential. That idea was radical in Jesus’ time and remains radical for many people today.

Good Friday acknowledges that true transformation of the self can be difficult. It symbolizes the need to die to one’s old sense of self in order for a new divine sense of self to emerge. It is the resurrected Christ sense of self that knows the ultimate truth of its oneness with God and all creation. It is this sense of self that directly experiences the creative, transformative, evolutionary power of God as the incarnate presence of perfecting love in our ever-changing lives and in an ever-changing world.

In the Easter Sunday flower service, each participant receives a flower as they enter the sanctuary. The flower symbolizes the unique beauty of one’s resurrected divine nature. The service will culminate with a meditation and a ritual in which every congregant walks to the front of the sanctuary and places their flower in a plain green wreath. The transformation of the wreath symbolizes a world transformed by the resurrected human Christ potential for truth, goodness and beauty; the potential to fulfill Unity’s vision: “Centered in God, we co-create a world that works for all.”



From the pulpit - Omaha.com

[ArmyofHeaven777]

The Emergents are starting to take center stage in the mainstream media now-Brian McLaren was on NPR in one of the prime time morning slots last week, spewing out his unity/anti-christian nonsense.

They glory in their own shame...