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?
[i] I have a problem with certain words that come across as perhaps clichéd or over used most words refer to spirituality.
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Hey, I have issues with spiritual language. Trying to talk without cliches is tricky - if you're in a particular culture then you learn to talk the lingo. The trouble is that language gets loaded, doesn't it, and we want to avoid the loading and use words that penetrate through all the peripheral church stuff and speak truth in relation to Jesus and what he is and means and does. Harder than you think! Good on you for making the time and effort to crystallise your thoughts in your blog. I find writing stuff is a salutary way of finding out how little I actually know : (
Socrates is supposed to have said, The unreflected life is not worth living. Blogs are a useful reflective tool for me : )
http://phdlearning.wordpress.com/
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