Took a walk this afternoon after having lunch with my wife and oldest son. It was exactly what I needed. Time alone, on the local pathway, smelling the plants, trees, nature, looking at the clouds, noticing people and just everything. It was a great time to clear my head and think about my upcoming sermon, Aug 26. Was listening to Casting Crowns new album, The Altar and The Door. "What the World Needs" is an amazing song and actually quite appropriate for some of what I have been going through. What the world really needs is Jesus, not all the other stuff that we attach to Him or to the Gospel.
It was a good walk
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3 comments:
Ok. so i didn't think Casting Crowns new CD was bad. but i think i like some of their older albums better. i never really know untill i listen to it a few times. but don't you just love it when u find a song that just really speaks about what ur going through. that always happens to me.
in the song "What this world needs" it was kinda confuseing...ok so ya us "Christians" are kinda confusign the world and alot of ppl and "religions" try to twist around what the Bible really means...but
should we really just get out of the way?
kaitlin
yes, Dean. just yes. you're on the right track with this thought. We all need Jesus, not man-made religion. How do we get out of the way as Kaitlin so wisely said? hmmm, I'll work on that.
maybe a better question to ask first is: CAN we get out of the way? Is that even possible? I mean, faith cannot live outside of time and space, it must be incarnated in culture, right? So maybe the goal is to express Jesus in our culture. Is that backwards to that - separate yourself from "the (evil) world" mantra of the typical Conservative Christian? Is that not good?
Have I asked enough questions now?
i think that the only way we can express our faith is through our culture. part of the problem with the traditional view of separating ourselves from the evil world is that we are no longer able to live and love as Christ did. we simply create another ghetto, this time a christian ghetto. where we are not able to live and interact with those who may or may not believe as we do. seems this whole separation thing is counterproductive to me. it actually sickens me.
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