John Smulo has posted a wonderfully thought provoking piece entitled 'peas in a pod'. everyone of his questions have pushed me to creating some space to think through and ask more questions myself. give it a read:)
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Thanks for the link and the encouraging comments on my blog! You have a lot of great stuff here, look forward to reading more.
Hey, thanks for directing me to this entry. It also takes me back to the conversations piece you commented on earlier; realizing that we rely on basic assumptions to have real conversation. These oxymorons are assumptions in some communities and make no sense in others.
thanks for the hookup with the link to the questions...
while i am curious to answer the questions, i am more curious to where the conversation is going to take us. we are all bringing different suppositions into this conversation, but i'm hoping that most will approach with the attitude of openness to listen to other sides.
also, the issue of language is incredibly difficult. sometimes i'd like to come up with an entire new set of terms for following Christ.
i agree about the journey being more important than the answers.
you comment on language reminds me of the movie babel, which i haven't seen yet. however descriptions of the film and storyline depict the many struggles we go through because of the complexity of language. quite a postmodern theme.
The idea of coming up with a whole new set of terms for following Christ has been something on my mind for awhile.
My biggest struggle is that the terms we use don't appear to always have a helpful meaning for Christians, or those who aren't. Actually, my greatest struggle is with the word Christian.
I've blogged a bit about why I don't use the word Christian often anymore and why I prefer Jesus-follower. Basically, I'd like to use words that raise questions instead of stereotypes--but hard to simplify in a blog comment :-)
josh, you know me, if its a movie, i'll eventually get around to seeing it...by the way, check out 'children of men'.
john, i absolutely agree with raising questions as opposed to creating stereotypes. i'm going to add that to my life if you don't mind. take all the room you want here in the comment section. you don't have to shorten anything up. or feel free to blog your thoughts and just link us to them:)
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Thanks for the link and the encouraging comments on my blog! You have a lot of great stuff here, look forward to reading more.
Hey, thanks for directing me to this entry. It also takes me back to the conversations piece you commented on earlier; realizing that we rely on basic assumptions to have real conversation. These oxymorons are assumptions in some communities and make no sense in others.
hi john,
glad you found your way over. thanks for stopping by and thanks again for the post!
brad
dani,
glad you found it helpful. i agree that our context of community is huge in these conversations:)
brad
brad,
thanks for the hookup with the link to the questions...
while i am curious to answer the questions, i am more curious to where the conversation is going to take us. we are all bringing different suppositions into this conversation, but i'm hoping that most will approach with the attitude of openness to listen to other sides.
also, the issue of language is incredibly difficult. sometimes i'd like to come up with an entire new set of terms for following Christ.
josh,
i agree about the journey being more important than the answers.
you comment on language reminds me of the movie babel, which i haven't seen yet. however descriptions of the film and storyline depict the many struggles we go through because of the complexity of language. quite a postmodern theme.
i like how you reference a movie you haven't seen.
very nice.
Josh,
The idea of coming up with a whole new set of terms for following Christ has been something on my mind for awhile.
My biggest struggle is that the terms we use don't appear to always have a helpful meaning for Christians, or those who aren't. Actually, my greatest struggle is with the word Christian.
I've blogged a bit about why I don't use the word Christian often anymore and why I prefer Jesus-follower. Basically, I'd like to use words that raise questions instead of stereotypes--but hard to simplify in a blog comment :-)
josh, you know me, if its a movie, i'll eventually get around to seeing it...by the way, check out 'children of men'.
john, i absolutely agree with raising questions as opposed to creating stereotypes. i'm going to add that to my life if you don't mind. take all the room you want here in the comment section. you don't have to shorten anything up. or feel free to blog your thoughts and just link us to them:)
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