"...Because although he (Jesus) knows us, we do not know him very well. We are lonely and empty because we do not know him very well. We are vacant inside, deafened by the continual wind of our emptiness, and only his presence can fill us. Yet we fail to know him well. Sometimes this is because we don't want to know him and sometimes because we don't know how.
Why do people continually want to revise the prevailing view of Jesus?
To relieve the pain of this dilemma by changing Jesus into something we can understand.
What is Jesus' alternative plan?
To change us into something that can understand him..." (Frederica Mathewes-Green from The Church in Emerging Culture
most of us are currently going through something right now, be it a change in job, change in town, change in anything, that seem difficult. it may be all of those things. i think the challenge for us, is to view these things through God's eyes. to see that maybe he has a plan, and maybe that plan involves some difficulty right now. i think for each of us, god wants us to be different tomorrow than we are today, to be closer to knowing him, closer to following him as we should.
i know for me, i am having to learn that i can't do everything. that sometimes i have to let other people do difficult things to help me, and that is a part of life with others. what is god teaching you? as he prepares you to go and do this thing in denver, what are some lessons you are having to learn?
a few books you guys may like to pick up, and i know we all wish we had more time for reading, but i think these would help considering the type of church we would like to be: A Primer on Postmodernism by Stan Grenz and the book i quoted at the beginning. if you all would like i can continue to recommend books, just let me know. or if you have a book that you think would benefit our little project, post it.
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Great post Chris! I'm learning how God really doesn't tolerate my casual Christian walk. Almost everyday something crappy happens; that completely stems from how I lived my life over the past few years.
I didn't think or even stop and mediate on how one lie or one decision would have a Aston Kutcher like Butterfly Effect. It's not that God hates me, it's becuase I wasn't obedient. He didn't want me to occasionally catch wind of what His will was, he wants me to meet Him halfway and to accomplish that Hes forcefully removed a lot of things from me... bad times.
Oh, and just to undermine my somewhat serious post: A book that would help is... That Bible. (Ms. Crabapple laugh) HA!
"on caring" by milton mayeroff is a book everyone should definately read. it is extremely short too, only take a couple hours to read and really harness.
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