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    • Rev. Matt Carriker
    • Reverend Matt Carriker is an ordained United Church of Christ (UCC) pastor serving a new UCC church in Waltham called Agape Spiritual Community. Matt finds joy in leading mindfulness, meditation, and contemplative practice opportunities in the Greater Boston community and in the church at large. Through the Southern New England Conference UCC, Matt co-facilitates confirmation and youth retreats and adult spiritual formation retreats. Matt is passionate about altering Christianity today into a spiritual tradition that models the unconditional love of God and the life and teachings of Jesus. The title of his newly released book is “Giving Christianity back to Agape Love.”

Giving Christianity Back to Agape Love

A New Paradigm for Being Church Together

How could a church that has been plagued by anti-Semitism, the killing of the Crusades, and the violence of the Inquisition (to name a few) be redeemed of these evils? Quite simply, it has always returned to Jesus.

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You are a Temple of God

The incarnational faith of Jesus invites us to live more deeply into our spiritual convictions day by day. This type of faith invites us not just into knowledge, but into lived experience. In today’s digital age, we can get just about any information we want over the internet. What we desire and crave, in life, and in faith, is not simply knowledge, but inspiration, experience, and integration.

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How Important are our Beliefs?

It’s interesting to see what Jesus thought about beliefs. Jesus, in his parable of the Good Samaritan, makes it clear that the righteous one is not the Pharisee or the lawyer, who are learned and who know about the law, correct belief, or so on. The righteous one is the one who cares for his neighbor, who reaches out to the stranger in need.

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Excerpt From “Giving Christianity Back To Jesus”

Jesus fully embodied the Christ.  Who and what is Christ?  A woman named Anne-Marie once asked me what I believed the second coming meant.  Who Christ and Jesus are is communicated in my response to Anne-Marie. “I’m …

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Setting the World on Fire (Metaphorically Speaking :)

Even where two or three are gathered, if the spirit is present- that spirit of fire, and power, and passion, and love- then amazing things will happen. Unexpected things.

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