Oslo International Church

There is a strange and peculiar dynamic in OiC. A mixture of business and quietness. A simultaneous sense of pause and of action. It's an expression of our identity as a serving community of faith, a community where that's expressed in serving each other. But why do we do it? Is it necessity or is it a choice?
This Sunday, Maicon Steuernagel looks at one of the most peculiar and remarkable acts that our Lord Jesus Christ himself chose in order to talk of himself as a servant, and call us into something…
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Walking into an OiC Sunday Service, we can hardly help but notice the kids inside. But do we pay attention to their prophetic presence? What happens when we center the kids, as Jesus did, and let them challenge our aspirations and priorities?
Welcome to an OiC Sunday Reflection, with Maicon Steuernagel.

This week's Sunday reflection comes in an unusual format, from an unusual Service: we finnaly had the opportunity to celebrate Sunday Service together with Hasle Menighet, with whom we share a Church building! 
Sophie Panknin is sharing the reflection, and Maicon Steuernagel is translating. 
Welcome to OiC's Sunday Reflections

"This is my body, which is for you." 
Maicon Steuernagel reminds us that that body is plural, and explores what it means to discern the Body of Christ as we share the Eucharist as a community of faith.
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OiC has gathered many times in many places: homes, a basement, a grassy hill, a number of church buildings. In all of those, a same open book. Why do we always open it and talk about it, whenever we gather? 
Maicon Steuernagel continues speaking of these Things Inside.
Welcome to OiC's Sunday Reflections!

Lifted arms, bended knees, hands knit together, voices speaking or whispering from mouths open under eyes shut. 
Prayer may be a thing inside the soul, yet it is also a collective expression of faith, and witness. What does it mean to speak of prayer in this way?
Maicon Steuernagel continues speaking of these Things Inside.
Welcome to OiC's Sunday Reflections!

As we walk into this holy space colored by stories and symbols like stained glass windows, we ask ourselves: what are the meanings of these things inside? 
As Maicon Steuernagel starts us off in a new series, he ponders first about the very doors, and talks about hospitaly as a sacred thing.
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Two simple phrases, packed with meaning and with challenge.
Maicon Steuernagel wraps up our series on 1 John by boiling it down to two simple phrases from the last part of the letter... and everything they lead us to.
 
Welcome to OiC's Sunday Reflections!