In this part, Rollins answers a question, posed by Tickle, on the nature of the church that is becoming as Christendom collapses. This church is sometimes called the emerging/emergent/emergence church, and he expresses it here as a place where we can truly be a priesthood of believers.
Rollins talks here about truth as not just a thing to think about and get your head around, but as something that changes and transforms you (Note: great analogy of Italian soldiers in this part). Likewise, God is not a thing to objectify, he changes you. He is the ultimate Subject, we are the objects, he is the one who shows us how to see ourselves and all the other objects.
Rollins talks about how “the logic of the Judeo-Christian tradition… [is] about wrestling and fighting not just pinning down the right answer”.
They talk is this part about how the changes that are needed are for the whole church, not just a small part (“youth ministry” or “evangelistic ministry”), and how we shouldn’t repeat the mistake the church made with St. Francis (hiding his prophetic voice away but never listening to him, and in the end only hastening in the reformation, and making Luther necessary).
Please pray for my dad who is back in the hospital with an infection in his bone. Pray that the antibiotics they give him will be able to suppress the infection long enough that his bones will calcify and get strong so they can take the rod out that is probably causing the infection (but that is also holding the bone in place and is therefore necessary for the time being). Thanks. Emily
This site will translate a sentence of your choice from English into countless other languages and then back again into English. As you can imagine, with hilarious consequences. Check out one of mine:
Original sentence: Now, this is the story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down…
Russian: Now, this story entirely about as my life was obtained strike- slightly turned upward by feet…
Japanese: This time, as for this, is obtained my life which…How concerning whether the bullet it turned upside down, it is the story complete
Italian: Now, this is the history entire approximately like my life has obtained launch-turn upside-down…
Danish: Actually , current is it action all round where me life getting playfulness turned upturned.
And my personal favorite,
Latin: Now, this is fable whole over, upon how my life got flipped to turn upside down.
Now, for me, as a lover of God and the scriptures, I have to ask, what are the implications of a phenomenon like this (the fact that if you translate something into another language and then back again it is full of flaws… not to mention flaws in the site itself!) on the idea of word-for-word, literal translations of the Bible?
Maybe too serious of a question for such a silly game…
Advent Conspiracy is a challenge to do these four things at Christmas time: Worship more (Jesus, the reason for the season), spend less (Americans spend 450 billion dollars a year on Christmas shopping), give more (instead of getting sucked into that kind of spending, give relationally, and truly love the people around you through time together or handmade, heartfelt gifts), and lastly LOVE ALL (with the money you don’t spend on Christmas gifts, you can help the poor and needy of the world: It would only cost 10 billion dollars to bring clean drinking water to EVERYONE!). Watch this video, and consider joining the conspiracy:
The National Youth Workers Convention that we went to in Nashville, TN last week was just what we needed. We weren’t so big on the hoopla (actually a pretty big turn-off… people buying and selling and gawking while being challenged to live simply and sacrificially–the feel of the convention vs. the message of the convention seemed somewhat contradictory), but the speakers spoke what we needed to hear. We heard from Francis Chan, Tony Campolo, Shane Claiborne, Andrew Marin (who works to bridge the gap between the church and the gay and lesbian community), Mark Yaconelli, Mike Pilavachi (Matt Redman’s Youth Pastor), Francis Collins (director of the Human Genome Project, evolution-through-creator-genius-christian-scientist-guy-and-also-funny), and Danielle Strickland (with the Salvation Army). We also got to see Shane and Shane perform, and Jars of Clay (old school faves, and they actually make GOOD music for a christian band).
Us by the river…
Shane and Shane
Thanksgiving with the family was lovely! Mom and Dad are doing great (they have a routine now, so even though Dad isn’t quite up to his old self yet, it seems effortless and in most ways just like before). Got to spend time with prego sister Stephanie and her husband Chris. Got to be with sweet April whose husband Joel couldn’t be with us because he is in the Air Force and over in Iraq. Got to see Grandmommy and Grandaddy too. It was a really nice time, and it was hard to leave.
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