Woah
Wow it's been almost a year since I wrote anything here, so probably no one reads here anymore anyway, ah well, c'est la vie. Just shows how long I have been out of internet access :) and that we have now allowed Porn (our flat nickname for Internet) into the flat.
Anyway in spite of feeling like shit or I mean @#$% these are some thoughts that I had recently.
I've been working my way through Exodus, chiefly because Jurgen Moltmann in A Theology of Hope talks about the Exodus church. A tenuous link I know but you gotta start somewhere right?
Anyway it intrigued me that at the beginning of Exodus God calls Moses to lead his people out from Egypt, the land of slavery and tyranny. However, before Moses can lead the people out, he is first sent back in. Back in to Egypt, into the land of slavery, into the land of tyranny. He goes in to both call the people out, showing them a bigger dream of the land of milk and honey, and to challenge the powers and principalities that hold them captive. As a prophet he shows people a better world and challenges power with miracles and the power of God. This is the call to the church. To be a prophetic people called out and so going deeper in. To call others out and to challenge the powers and the principalities that hold people captive.
Anyway in spite of feeling like shit or I mean @#$% these are some thoughts that I had recently.
I've been working my way through Exodus, chiefly because Jurgen Moltmann in A Theology of Hope talks about the Exodus church. A tenuous link I know but you gotta start somewhere right?
Anyway it intrigued me that at the beginning of Exodus God calls Moses to lead his people out from Egypt, the land of slavery and tyranny. However, before Moses can lead the people out, he is first sent back in. Back in to Egypt, into the land of slavery, into the land of tyranny. He goes in to both call the people out, showing them a bigger dream of the land of milk and honey, and to challenge the powers and principalities that hold them captive. As a prophet he shows people a better world and challenges power with miracles and the power of God. This is the call to the church. To be a prophetic people called out and so going deeper in. To call others out and to challenge the powers and the principalities that hold people captive.
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5 Comments:
Man it certainly has been a long time since you last posted here! None the less you can't claim no one reads it ;-) As my RSS reader checks it every day in the faint hope that you would eventually start posting on it again. :-)
Any way welcome back to the interwebs, hope it all set up well for you!
Yes indeedy, it has been a long time - welcome back to the use of uh, Porn? My RSS reader is like Chad's - it keeps checking people's blogs, because it is the virtual equivalent of a terrier (and possibly, if you sat it down for a bit of a chat, you'd find it actually finds deep fulfilment and satisfaction from finding threads and posts).
Perhaps a little much anthropomorphising there... cool post, though. I have heard a bit about Maltmann (one of our pastors did a sermon on him last year) and am intrigued - is he worth the read?
Interesting thoughts. I like where you're going with that. How does one do that, I wonder? (without being an arrogant churchy git, that is :P).
Oh harro :)
I thought you'd be a crusader in the highlands when you posted again? I stumbled across this purely by accident, I really gotta get RSS happening. I like your thoughts. They sound very you.
Have a happy day
Why you feel like @#$% ?
:( hug?
Came across your blog today. How come you have stopped writing?
I liked your "wife swap" post. Sadly I know very few christians who aren't judgey-von-holier-than-thou - which isn't the way Christ called the church to be.
It's great to know there's likeminded people like yourself out there.
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