Thoughts to come, hopefully....
Thoughts on solitude and community.
Suspicion as the enemy of community.
Is the value of an individual within a given community contingent upon that individual's potential/real contribution to that community? What about within the redeemed community? How does it affect our interpretation of Scripture? How does it affect our understanding of sin - original and personal?
Love, unity, division, marginalization, peace, Friday's message in chapel, humility, preaching.
Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
Unity?!
Unity - what is it?
Is it possible? How?
Oh, the thoughts that have run their course through my mind as of late... modernity, postmodernity, truth, God, Christ, Christianity, priorities, surrender, society, politics, word-deed disconnect, God as a social construct vs. God as Himself, the Church, pain and brokenness, orientation, misplaced focus, existence, HIV/AIDS and a properly Christian approach, love, justice, interpretation of Scripture, do we trying to follow ourselves even though we pretend to be following God?
Maybe I'll unpack some of these here. Maybe.
Peace. Soli Deo Gloria.
Is it possible? How?
Oh, the thoughts that have run their course through my mind as of late... modernity, postmodernity, truth, God, Christ, Christianity, priorities, surrender, society, politics, word-deed disconnect, God as a social construct vs. God as Himself, the Church, pain and brokenness, orientation, misplaced focus, existence, HIV/AIDS and a properly Christian approach, love, justice, interpretation of Scripture, do we trying to follow ourselves even though we pretend to be following God?
Maybe I'll unpack some of these here. Maybe.
Peace. Soli Deo Gloria.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Dear Church
Dear Church:
Who are you? Do you even know?
Who brings you into being?
Who gives you life?
Who draws you to himself?
Who comforts you in your pain?
Who lights your darkness and lightens your burden?
Who gives rest to the weary and restores the broken?
Who speaks judgment on the oppressors and justice for the oppressed?
Who grants mercy to the penitent?
Who brings peace in the midst of struggle?
Who leads the blind and heals the lame?
Who warns those who are idle and encourages the timid?
Who helps the weak?
Who leads the fearful?
Who touches the unloved?
Who displays the truth and disputes deceit?
Who brings you to this place?
Who gives you cause to be thankful and reason to be joyful?
Who will take you home?
Dear Church:
Who is this person? Do you even know?
He died to restore you. He rose in God’s mighty power.
In the same way, you also are called to die. God will take care of the rest. You must die.
“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” John 12:24.
Teach us, Lord – we need you.
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