Categories: changing mindsets, church, food for thought
Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought
Categories: food for thought, theological questions
Categories: changing mindsets, church, food for thought
There is a great deal of transition going on right now. More and more people are at different stages of re-thinking the institutional forms of church that we’ve had for centuries. That process can be admittedly a bit messy at times, even within our own souls. We may change opinions frequently as we try, with God’s help, to figure things out.
Categories: food for thought
Cindy posted this on her blog today–an email sent to a lay leader in her congregation in response to a request for input regarding the future of the church. I think these two paragraphs state the case better than any I’ve read in some time. So here they are:
Categories: food for thought, You need to read this
My post a couple of days ago, The View from Here, generated some of the most interesting comments I’ve received since starting this blog. I found in those comments a very similar (and strong) dissatisfaction with the status quo–and a kindred spirit among them. I also noted that people are dealing with that dissatisfaction in differing ways. Some are trying to stay in the institutions hoping to be a catalyst for change (or perhaps reluctant to break the only form of fellowship they know); and some are feeling like they need to leave.
Categories: food for thought, Rantings
I’m reading a book right now that, quite honestly, is ticking me off.
I’ll withhold the title of it until I’m finished with it, then I’ll write you a nice scathing review. But it’s one that’s been going around and talked about, and one that a number of bloggers have already reviewed, about some things that traditional church does that have nothing to do with the Bible. Knowing what this blog is about, you’d think I’d be all over this one–and it does contain some useful information–but the overall tone of the book is just ruining the experience for me. It’s preachy and dogmatic, and even angry…and the authors’ solutions for what the church should really look like are, in my opinion, just as legalistic as the traditions I’m trying to get away from. Something inside me keeps saying, “Yes, we need to re-think this stuff…but nah, THIS isn’t the way to go about it.” What good is it to trade off one form of legalism for another?
Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought
So I’ve been thinking about the continuing dialogue going on in this blog about music and movies that have spoken to us. People are still commenting on entries I wrote days ago, and a lot of “secular” songs and movies have been mentioned in the lists. (That doesn’t really surprise me too much, because I started it.) But it’s got me thinking a little more deeply about this, because in reality it’s not so much about the movies and songs themselves, but about how we are interacting with the world, and how God is interacting with us in the midst of that experience.
Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, Rantings
Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought
