I wish I had the guts to do this. Absolutely love it. h/t to nathan for the find. You can watch the entire series here.
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I’ve got lots of questions, here’s a series of questions I’ve been pondering lately on church gatherings – and by that I mean that thing folks do in the New Testament when they get together.
What do you call yours? I was going to say Sunday gathering, but lots of folks don’t meet on Sundays. Worship service came to mind, but ain’t all life worship? and are we really being serviced?
Last sunday I did a collaborative message in silence (You can read about when I did it last before here). If you brought me into your church to ‘preach’ and all I did was help Christ be formed in them one of the best ways I know how, would you be disappointed?
With the centrality of Scripture, and it being text, content, information (and yes, Story for you emergent folks, and the Living Word of God for you fundies), I wonder if we’ve overemphasized it’s generally unidirectional mode of communication in our own practices?
Does ‘the gospel’ need to be proclaimed with every gathering?
Could the full weight of the gospel ever be transmitted this side of life?
Could we compress the gospel to a 140-character tweet and spend the rest of our time living it out?
How much literal reading of the Scripture do you do? Things vary for us, but typically we collectively read a mix of passages following a lectionary, and I tend to expound on a short text. Some folks want full exposure to the breadth of the Bible, others don’t want to gloss over it and hone in.
Does the Pareto principle of 20% of the people doing 80% of the ‘work’ apply to your gathering?
Do we really need to gather weekly? versus daily or monthly?
What does God desire for us collectively as we gather? And are there elements in our worship gathering that don’t contribute towards that?
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Barack Obama drew a crowd of 100,000 at a rally near the Gateway Arch in St. Louis on Saturday, the AP reports. McCain spent the day campaigning in North Carolina.
CNN projects that if the election were held today, Obama would be guaranteed a win, even without including any of the toss up states. Realclearpolitics.com and fivethirtyeight.com are both projecting landslide victories of 350-370 electoral votes, well beyond the 270 required.
Obama continues to caution supporters to ‘remember new hampshire’ when the polls seemed to be wrong. The polls will undoubtedly tighten, but I don’t see any way for the Republicans from facing complete embarrassment.
Some thoughts and questions
I met my first Canadian Obama fan who’s been following the campaign closer than I am… and has contributed to the campaign and distributed the audacity of hope to friends. wow, way to go Zaya!
As much as I love Obama, I don’t think he’ll ‘transform washington’. He’s going to have a massive hole to dig out of.
What I do think will be transformative, is the impact 10-20 years from now due to the the number of young adults that have been engaged because of Obama.
The first black president has a ring to it, but why isn’t Obama touted as the first half-white or bi-racial president?
Is there any chance McCain might take the high road and end this campaign with some dignity?
The more people seem to know about Palin, the less they seem to like her. At least with independents. Troopergate was a mess.
Obama and McCain roasted each other at a recent charity function. Both quite funny.
Chuck Todd’s really become quite a political superstar analyst this election cycle, but I think the Microsoft Surface table he’s been using is totally lame.
I finally got around to looking at the platform of the Canadian Christian heritage party. There’s twice as right winged as the Republicans. I’m embarrassed by their platform. I hope that doesn’t get me into trouble.
I wonder what politics this year has revealed about evangelicals?
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Some random questions I’m sure plenty of you have interesting responses to…
What’s the difference between a Christian and a humanitarian?
What do you love more? Christ or the Cause of Christ?
What would you be doing if you couldn’t be the hands and feet of Christ? ie. you were just a head being pulled around on a skateboard?
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(Photo by Glendon Tang of Impulse Photography)
Some questions that came up in the planning process for the event
- What would it look like for do something large enough that demands more than just me?
- What would it look like for the church to create an event or experience that was not for itself?
- What if we could provide a unique platform for emerging artists to showcase their God-given gifts?
- What if at the same time, we could pique the latent creativity within every individual that participated?
- How could we create an environment that was both inclusive and diverse musically, artistically, culturally, and even spiritually?
- How might we create a space that might provoke the imaginations from people of all backgrounds?
- Could we have a spectacular night of creativity and community while being involved with a cause worthy of our time?
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I’ve been highly unproductive the last few weeks trying to pray and listen for God to speak to me in terms of next steps… problem is He keeps speaking to me in all these other areas of my life.
- I have answers to questions I haven’t honestly wrestled through myself
- I judge people by their actions, but I want them to judge me by my intentions
- I talk a lot about interdependent living, but I plan my life towards independence
- I tend to like conflict, because I think I’m usually right. Conflict becomes just another game I can win.
- I’m done seminary, but I really don’t know the Bible as well as I should
- I’m selective with Scriptures – I’m not sure what to do with the miracles I can’t perform, or even things like the holy kiss.
- I drink gravy straight-up when no one’s looking.
- I tend to minimize serious issues with humor
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Some random questions recently on my mind…
- What’s the deal with hard-covered books?
- How do I pray for daily bread, when I’ve got over a week’s worth in my kitchen?
- Why can’t the government do my taxes for me?
- When will Hillary finally quit?
- Who’s gonna ride your wild horses?
- What would pastors do if they weren’t allowed to speak on Sundays?
- What do homeless people think of me?
- Why do they tell us x-rays are harmless and make us put on those heavy vests?
- Jesus seemed like a fairly earthy guy. What technologies would he be using today?
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Ever feel like you have more friends than you have time for?
Ever question if you really have any meaningful friendships at all?
Do you wonder who some of those people are on your facebook account?
How do you pick and choose who you spend time making deep friendships with?
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