Someone who calls himself the Insane Zamboni over at the journey, is posting some quotes from Ron Sider. Here is the post recent quote:
He has hit on a key western / north american problem - the personalization to the point of individualization of the gospel. Yes, we can know God personally, but having been made a son or daughter of the living God, we discover that in Christ we have a bunch of brothers and sisters.
God's grand strategy of redemption does not focus on redeeming isolated individuals; it centers on the creation of a new people, a new community, a new social order that begins to live now the way the Creator intended... Jesus was not a lone ranger who made private house calls on isolated hermits or autonomous individuals. Jesus gathered a circle of disciples and together they formed a new community.Snider, has never been one to mince words.
If we grasp the New Testament understanding of the church, then we realize that the modern, evangelical reduction of Christianity to some personal, privitized affair that only affects my personal relationship with God and perhaps my personal family life is blatant heresy.
Source: The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience by Ronald Sider, p. 97, 102-103.
He has hit on a key western / north american problem - the personalization to the point of individualization of the gospel. Yes, we can know God personally, but having been made a son or daughter of the living God, we discover that in Christ we have a bunch of brothers and sisters.
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You see, there we go again: wrong picture.
If the church is people [and it is] - God's people - the community of God - the family of God - then there should be partying!
The fruit [singular, not optional] of the spirit is love, joy, peace...
Let the joy show!!
Not so much with the nude gyrations but more with the dancing in general. I don't really have many skills to pay the dancing bills but I do like singing about it. Like the Delirious? tune, "did you feel the mountains tremble" for example. They call us to "dance upon injustice". I like that. I think the western church could use a little more of that kind of grooving. In fact, maybe we should move the party out of the house and into the streets. Maybe even ones that have no names.
Ok, I'll quit now. I'm beginning to sound like that Scott guy who sometimes posts....
Good times.
P.s. J mills - you're posts are starting to taking a turn for the better....
Not quite naked - but certainly energetically - David was possibly the first break dancer!