I am beginning to think more and more that maybe…

~ Vision isn’t such a good thing after all. A five year plan, clear concise action items just may lead us away from trust.

~ Canning Hunger (see Walk Thru the Bible) is dangerously tricky and unnatural. If the Mormons ever worked their way into my life that way I would be ticked off. Open honest, equal dialogue over time must be a better way.

~ The church/world distinction that we throw around is kind of nasty because it assumes too much. It assumes we in the church have it together, which we all know is not the case. It assumes the church is a sacred place and anything/anyone outside of it is secular. The two may blur a lot more that we would like to admit. Maybe by drawing lines we have excluded some who should be in and included some who should be out. Or maybe the lines just aren’t helpful.

~ Holy Scripture can be dangerously misinterpreted by anyone to mean anything at any time. Maybe individual study/interpretation is dangerous. Maybe we should begin to let scripture read us in community. Maybe we should apply it in community rather that isolation.

~ The church is not something we can do or go to, but something we simply are when we are together. Therefore structuring a church service cannot be as rigid as, as static, as predictable we have made it out to be.

~ The true distinction of Christ follower should be someone who’s life is marked by love rather that someone who affirms belief in a certain set of doctrinal statements or someone who has “prayed the prayer.”

~ The Kingdom of God exists way beyond the borders of our local congregation.

~ The proclamation of the gospel doesn’t have to be done through the pulpit. Maybe it is more effectively done today over coffee or one on ones or relationally. Maybe it is more effectively done through art, through community, or through our lives.

- posted by Jacob B. @ 4:43 PM