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By: Beincarnation | Solar Crash

Beincarnation | Solar Crash — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:46:43 +0000

[...] to my post on tantric preaching, beincarnation co-opts another traditionally ‘Eastern’ term – Reincarnation. I’ll [...]

By: Solar Crash: November round-up | Solar Crash

Solar Crash: November round-up | Solar Crash — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:57:30 +0000

[...] are November’s picks – feel free to continue interacting on any of them. – Tantric Preaching – Pastoring vs. Jesus – Multi-Ethnicing a church – I declare – “No Church Sunday” – [...]

By: Yu

Yu — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:08:16 +0000

Yupz, I’m taking pomo preaching. Will let you know how it goes.

By: Lon

Lon — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:32:56 +0000

Hey Yu… nope. Just two courses next term to wrap up for me – Urban Ministry II and Teaching to Learn&Teaching to learn. Will you be in that one? I’d love to hear how that one is different from advanced preaching.

By: Yu

Yu — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:47:32 +0000

Hey Lon,

LUV the idea. I think I’ll have to it .

btw, are you going to take preaching to postmoderns?

By: Lon

Lon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:10:03 +0000

Glad you liked it Marty, good thoughts. I still haven’t worked out all the nuances between teaching, preaching, proclaiming, sharing, etc. I assume there’s a need for all of it, key being that we all do something about connecting deeply with people…

maybe the narrative part is where we show others how their unique story is already a part of the grander story and how they’ve been engaging all of their lives, if even at a distance…

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:25:45 +0000

Get out of here. I saw that title and I started rolling.

Hopefully this will make some sense but it takes two to tantric (not sure how to type that) Traditional preaching and doctrine has had little interaction. There is a difference between talking at people and talking with people. Teaching and sharing could also be seen as two different things. So how much of this story telling narative theology has to do with engaging with another?

By: Lon

Lon — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:07:44 +0000

thanks for the comments guys.

Albert… dare i go as far as saying God is a tantric preacher? no matter what culture or background you’re from stories connect at the deepest levels. that’s why god didn’t give us a textbook full of points or answers, he gives us stories, journals, letters with characters and plot. throughout human history, there’s tension and release as we screw up yet God gives us glimpses of hope culminating in the restoration of all things… now that’s tantric if you ask me.

By: Albert

Albert — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:37:10 +0000

Amazing Lon.
As a half related note…
MensGroup will be talking about something called “narrative theology” in a bit as well, where theology (as it was most common) was derived out of the stories told by the biblical authors instead of the more common (yet easier to be misinterpreted) point form verses derivation.

I wonder how that can be used alongside with tantric preaching

By: stephen

stephen — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:07:44 +0000

until now, i’ve never wanted to be a preacher. but i have to say, lon, you have found a way to make it sound much more appealing!