A Simple Design
It’s amazing to me how much Christians get muddled down in the gray areas of faith. How you should read your Bible everyday but it should never be a chore or out of obligation. How if you are short on faith or having a hard time struggling with your beliefs, you should read your Bible and pray more. It just seems like we say that our salvation comes from God and not from anything that we do and then we put all these stipulations on it. Not that the things that we add are bad, but I just don’t like that we add the connotations that they are required to be a christian. I just hate to see a struggling brother hold up this man made list of things that he has to do be a christian and grow further from God and more into a stooper because he doesn’t...
A Quick Christian Physical
So on the church retreat last weekend I realized how the church has a lot of problems connecting with our hermitish suburban lifestyle and it got me thinking. When did we disconnect with society? Did we disconnect with society or are we so connected that we are the same as them only caring about ourselves and being fine with not knowing the names of the people next door. If we are so disconnected, how have we gotten so behind the curb as far as learning to relate to society. I don’t think we have disconnected. I think we are totally connected which is why fellowship and community are so hard to find in churches. We either don’t want to be part of the church family reaching out to our culture or we don’t know how. What are your thoughts?
Battle of Words
A good article I found on Life, Love & Why, but not by Greg, but he did find it. Battle of Words by Travis Mamone at RelevantMagazine.com My friend Max used to work at a small kitchen supply store that hardly had any business, so I would often visit him. He’s a very smart guy who has a lot of well thought out ideas about politics, art and life. I may not always agree with him, but I’m always fascinated to hear what he has to say, and end up thinking about things I had never thought of before. One afternoon while we were chatting, the cleaning lady came in to pick up a key. Before she left she mentioned to us that she was having trouble finding a second job for the summer. “It’s because all the good jobs are going to those daggone Mexicans,” she...
The Skitzo Paraplegic – Why the Church in the US needs to be resusistated.
Divided by countless denominations, represented by angry uncontrolled faces in the media, the heads of good churches trying to motivate and reinvigorate an unwilling body. How can the Church be reinvigorated as a whole? How can Christianity reclaim its identity in a culture that is being mislead and misunderstands?
What will it take to make your local church a family?
I feel like the Church (at least in the US) has broken away from the family atmosphere and has moved to a place that looks just like the secular culture outside it. Broken up by demographics, race, age, family size, parenting styles and in some cases geography. We are so busy with our lives that investing time into relationships in which our similarities are not obvious from the get go just doesn’t happen. The church becomes a dysfunctional group of clicks and people start noticing a lack of fellowship, gee imagine that.
An Understanding of the greater Church
I wonder how my opinion would change on the current status of the Church would change if I viewed and grasped the concept of a world wide Church. I feel like I get a little disheartened because I live in a country in which the Church is struggling to find its way in relating to itself and its people. Its also struggling because the culture it so desires to reach sees less of a need for it then ever and the church doesn’t understand how to reach those that feel like they already have all the answers(even though they themselves don’t believe that, but they so long too). The church body is weak, complacent, and listless as leaders scramble and exhaust themselves trying to motivate the self-centered and supposedly self-sufficient congregations who care...