The Stand Alone Gospel Message

Ive been thinking more on the Power of God and the Jesus Story.

Is it powerful enough to have an impact on us. Of course it is! There is no end to the displays of Gods Power and Love for us and so surely this is strong enough to solely impact someone…

Why then do we have to relate God to our lives to the 21^st Century? I think part of it is because we don’t know how to deal with the immensity and reality of God being God. In a way I sometimes tend to think oh we need anything we can get to assist this message make it relevant. We can’t comprehend that Gods Power is enough and so we end up manipulating it, and molding to find ways that it will connect with a person ways that it becomes relevant. In doing this are we watering down the message? Maybe we are making it more effective? Or are we creating a worldly Christian subculture that feeds nothing more than ourselves so we can deal with our own doubts about the message?

Stimulus or Substance

So one of the major thoughts I have been pondering is the debate on the Emerging church… I’ve always seen me as someone who likes the idea of moving forward in our thoughts, of taking what is relevant and seeking to live out my faith in a post-modern world… I wouldn’t necessarily say that is entirely what I do but am merely romanticized by the idea that I could become an “Emerging Christian”.

While we are stripping the Christian faith back to relook at key truths and position them in a new and relative/relevant? manner, are we forgetting the power of The Jesus Story. I caught myself explaining the importance of making God relevant to the masses to a freind and she said hold up, isn’t firstly the power of the “gospel message”[i] strong enough to hit people, to speak truth and love into their lives? And then secondly isn’t the power of God enough to impact? So I have begun to wonder – Do we need to involve all this post-modern substance into something that is beautifully and powerfully impacting in its own entirety?

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[i] I have a problem with certain words that come across as perhaps clichéd or over used most words refer to spirituality.

A new me...

Recently I’ve been doing a lot of thinking… And reading and reading makes me think. I’ve been thinking about forming stronger opinions, researching my opinions standing more for my beliefs, questioning why I believe things. So I’ve been reading a lot of blogs and have been thinking hmmm step 1 to growing my mind I should start my own blog. I used to have a blog on containing all things a 17 year old found amusing/struggled with and I like exposing my thoughts to the world so have breathed new life into a once dead weblink ( I remembered the password) and have left my last post (and perhaps only) from 2007.