Dr. David Fitch, Sacramental Presence, and Youth Group Ski Trips | TTF 82

The Threshing Floor

It's Lent. And we just finished Mardi Gras. On this episode, Chad and Drew have a conversation about getting ready for Lent and traditions before Ash Wednesday. We also have a conversation with Dr. David Fitch from Northern Seminary in Chicago.

Our conversations include:

• Joshua is skiing.
• Youth group ski trips.
• Movie censorship.
• Mardi Gras.
• Shrove Tuesday.
• King Cake.
• Fat Tuesday and the Filthy Fifty.
• Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday is the liturgical version of the classic Beatles or Stones question.
• David Fitch.
• Theology of Sacramental Presence.
• How the presence of Christ manifests in places.
• How are sacraments turned outward.
• A little fasting goes a long way.
• The whole church needs more Lent.
• You will not have a you that is a me without the us.
• How have you become reconciled back to Christ for the purpose of this world?
• Living as reconcilers.
• We pray to "our" Father, not "my" Father.
• Different versions of the "presence" of Christ as subjective, experimental or a social reality.
• Sin in the camp effects the camp (exodus).
• Peacemaking and reconciling.
• Do we believe in reconciliation or do we do reconciliation?
• What does Lent look like for the sake of other people?
• Lent and communal sins.
• Church Calendar (as Christendom).
• Communal Penitence.
• Lent as a prophetic presence.
• It can't just be purple stuff.
• Post-modern reality is a reality of community.
• Lent as the presence of Christ.
• Christ is a social constructor NOT a social construct.
• David Fitch and his Facebook skills.

Find and interact with David Fitch @fitchest and MissioAlliance