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Categories: weather, What the heck was THAT?
Categories: faith, food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)
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Categories: faith, Meanderings (look it up)
A few years ago, when my religion was failing me, a lot of that season was actually about un-learning and re-learning the concept of faith.
Being raised with a charismatic, Word-of-Faith background, my whole picture of faith was to take Scripture that applied to my case, pray, confess the word, and believe with all my heart that what I wanted to happen, would happen. Despite all claims to the contrary–to me, it was a formula I worked. And if it didn’t work, I must have done something wrong.
Categories: food for thought
Tracy wrote a very thoughtful piece today called “Us Versus Them“, talking about the mentality so prevalent among us humans to differentiate ourselves from others, to see ourselves as superior to others over this or that belief, or color of skin, or what-have-you.
At the end of the post, she asked us, her readers, to consider whether we still struggle with the us-versus-them mentality. The thoughts came pouring through my mind, too much to put in a comment; so I thought I’d reflect on it here. (I think this problem is common to all mankind, but for our purposes I’ll put it in the context of belief and practice of faith.)
Categories: changing mindsets, church, food for thought
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)
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Categories: church, food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)
So I’ve been pondering how my thinking has changed over the past few years, and how I can’t stomach so much of the Christian-ese lingo and churchy behavior anymore–which is funny because I used to be all about that stuff not too very long ago. I don’t go near Christian television anymore, I don’t listen to Christian radio hardly at all, and I usually can’t stand to listen to sermons anymore. And I feel very out of place in most church meetings.
And I know why I’m like this now. And it’s not that I’ve abandoned my faith.
Categories: church, food for thought, Rantings