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Everybody’s Broken

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Don’t exactly know why I was thinking about this, but it is a truth that has become more real to me as my journey progresses:

Everybody’s broken.

No, this isn’t a “downer” post. Honest, I’m not depressed. See, I’m smiling: 🙂

But it’s true. Not only were we all born with a fallen nature, but in a world filled with fallen people it is literally impossible to walk through this life without sustaining some kind of wounding–whether it be physical or emotional. For those who will chose it, we spend a good part of our life in some process of recovering from those wounds. For others, sadly, their brokenness dominates them throughout life. But it’s important to understand and remember this idea, not just on a philosophical “nobody’s perfect” level, but as a truth that affects our actions.

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Creating Community, or Finding It (part 2: Community Happens)

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Categories: community, food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

In part 1, I started a stream of thought about my changing picture of community, how it used to be so tied to the institutional structures (which are essentially created communities), and how I’m seeing it as more of an organic, naturally occuring thing. I talked about the feeling of alone-ness that so often happens to…oh, heck, just go read it. Sheesh, I’m sitting here writing the dang thing all over again… 😀

So for us believers who have found ourselves outside the walls, if the solution for our alone-ness is not (necessarily) to create new communities with others who share our experience, how can we re-think it? We know it’s important, we see it as a need; what, if anything, do we do about it?

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What’s Coming…

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Categories: How I am, Meanderings (look it up), moments of truth, You need to read this

I’ve processed a lot of stuff here in the past couple of years, as I’ve transitioned out of institutional church into “something else” that I don’t know what to call it yet. This transition has been full of surprises; if someone had made me bet my life on predicting the stuff that has happened, I’d be dead now.

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Bigger Than Our Minds

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You can probably tell I’ve been thinking again… 🙂

As I’ve been watching people grapple with different ideas here in recent posts, I’ve been thinking about how we grapple with the Scriptures, particularly with those concepts that are more troublesome to us. There are many examples I could cite, but in light of the previous post, let’s talk more about the judgments of God expressed in the Old Testament. There’s no doubt that the very idea of God either killing people or telling people to kill other people really messes with our logic about a loving God. For that matter, the idea of a literal hell and eternal judgment does the same kind of thing. How could a God of love do that kind of thing? we reason to ourselves.

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What Do We Do Now?

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During a phone discussion I was part of last night with some fellow bloggers, some interesting observations were made that have me thinking some more this morning. (And I have to credit Pam for sparking most of this thought process.)

There is no doubt that there are at this point a huge number of people–likely numbering in the millions–who are making an exodus from the institutional forms of Christianity. Many have walked away hurt and wounded; some left simply disillusioned. Some have admittedly migrated away from the faith, but a huge portion actually feel their relationship with God has improved with their departure. Many of us–dare I say a significant majority?–left because we were looking for more, because somehow we felt that what the church was presenting could not be a complete or fair picture of all Jesus is, or what the faith is about.

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It’s a Go-to-Them Thing

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From some folks looking at our story from the outside, it might look like we’ve left the ministry.

If “ministry” means an institutional entity that operates like a business, or a set-apart occupation that only focuses on activities considered “spiritual” rather than “secular”…then yes, we’ve left that kind of ministry.

But in the various things The Wild One and I have been involved with in recent days, I have to say that the heart of ministry (that is, the urge to genuinely bring help and love to others) still beats strong in us. It’s like everything we do ends up having something to do with that, without our trying to make it so. It’s like breathing. And I think that is so cool.

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Reconnecting…

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So after my rant a couple of months ago about people who say, “I’ve been busy lately” as a lame excuse for dropping the ball with their blog posting…here I am posting maybe twice a week at best. What utter hypocrisy of me. 🙂 (Except, of course, that post was intended as humor…for you people who have none.)

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What’s the Story (excerpt)

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Excerpted from my post today on Communitas:

Among the many other irons I have in the fire, I am managing to squeeze in reading a borrowed copy of Donald Miller’s new book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Actually, I’m reading it out loud–to my family. That might sound a bit Amish or something, but my family loves it when I read Donald Miller to them–he can be so funny when he writes, and I guess I have this comedic timing with it when I read him aloud.

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In Which I Ramble About How I Wish I Could Write Like Donald Miller

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Categories: it's all about me, Meanderings (look it up), Things I Should Probably Not Be Telling You

I don’t know if anyone but me remembers this, but I started this blog as practice, as a way of processing my thoughts, with the intention of eventually writing a book.

That was two years ago next week.

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