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Joe and Marcia have been married 40 years, with a son David, 34, who is married to Cathy and live in in Olathe, Kansas. David and Cathy have a son, "Jace", born in October of 2009. Joe and Marcia are proud grandparents!
One way he describes himself is. "I have a compassionate heart for all and have a few close friends to whom I am deeply loyal." Personality Type: INFP Identified "Dependable Strengths": Innovative - Collaborative - Vision - Community At my best I am a person who resolutely strives to shape and express a vision that emerges from a process of community conversation in which I intentionally invite and welcome the diverse viewpoints and ideas of others. I endeavor to give innovative expression to the realm of God as it takes shape in individual and community life. Pastor Joe is a DYC-DS trained facilitator. (Discover Your Call - Dependable Strengths)
Pastor Joe
is authorized to administer the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)
........................... CORE AFFIRMATIONS .............................. What are your core AFFIRMATIONS? These are mine in regards to my faith. This is a good exercise to help you reflect on your faith and clarify what it is that you can affirm in regards to faith in God. After you identify your top affirmations, make a copy and hang it on the wall near your desk to serve as a reminder to you of just who you are today! Don't be afraid to change them as your experience of God continues... I chose ten - it seems like a nice biblical number. 1. I affirm that Jesus Christ is the emergence of God's ongoing gracious presence in the world, and that through Jesus relationship with God is experienced. Jesus is a doorway into the mystery of God. 2. I affirm that God is a creative Presence and that to be created in the "image of God" affirms the worth and dignity of every person. Purpose is found living in relationship with God and thus advancing compassion and justice in the world. God's ongoing creative activity continues... 3. I affirm that faith is trust and commitment to the way of Jesus in the Christian paradigm. I do not define faith as belief in creeds and and doctrines which are largely based on a pre-Copernican view of the world. 4. I affirm that the Christian Life is a life not lived by the letter of the law, but in a deepening and understanding and experience of God's grace. This relationship is outwardly expressed in a life characterized by attitudes and actions of love, compassion and a quest for social and environmental justice. 5. I affirm that grace and relationship with God is life's default setting and not something I acquire in a belief transaction, but that faith is all that nurtures that given relationship. 6. I affirm that God's love is a cherishing love which gives worth and dignity to all people, every individual, and all creation. My identity is rooted in trusting I am immersed in that love. 7. I affirm that every person is uniquely gifted, not for self glorification, but for the purpose of affirming those around me to advance compassion and justice in the world. We are placed in a community of faith which is to be a channel of grace not a mediator of grace. 8. I affirm that Jesus is fully present in the world, especially in the lives of any and all who suffer and are oppressed. When I minister to the suffering, I minister to the very presence of Christ! 9. I affirm that personal ownership is always tempered by the conviction that God is involved in ownership as Giver of all my so-called possessions, material and personal. Responsible Christian witness means using and sharing my blessings for the work of the realm of God and the benefit of others. As Jesus modeled this is often manifested in a life of sacrifice. In this endeavor and use of possessions, I am an active participate in God's ongoing creative activity. 10. I affirm that the bible must be read historically-contextually, metaphorically and sacramentally. The bible is our sacred scripture and central to the Christian experience. The bible is sacred in its status and function but not in its origin. The bible conveys the sacred and can mediates the Spirit, but rather than being a divine product, it is a human response to perceived God-experiences in ancient historical communities and cultures. |
Joe's preaching and teaching
reflects a strong incarnational
theology and reailized eschatology believing in the immanence of God's gracious presence in the
world and that all is held within the being of God. An empowering biblical passage is "Just as you did it to one of the least of these. . . you did it to me"
(Matthew
25:40)