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One theme of the Epiphany season is coming to the realization of what God is up to in any given community of faith. Nancy Ammerman provides helpful categories of explicit and implicit theologies. For example, the stated (explicit) vision of a particular church might be: “We are a growing community in service to Christ’s people.” However, if the power people within the congregation spend the majority of their time on building and parking-lot issues, this suggests a more inward, implied theology.
