Connections
One of the most appealing thoughts in Eastern Religion that is often lost on the Western Christian is the connection we have with all of reality. With our personal relationship with God that involves us owning our own Bible and having personal quiet times, prayer times, and study times and with the variety and convenience of churches we can go where we want when we want to worship how we want and so much of this religion that we practice is about us, individually. In an effort to fight against the heretical idea of pantheism we allow monotheism to become defined in our own lives as “God is disconnected and so are we.”
We very seldom think in terms like, “I must read scripture and contemplate its meaning so that my wife might have a good day, or so that my co-workers might be able to do their job better, or so the person I smile at as they wait for their bus might think that someone cares.”
One of the reasons I love the movie Crash is that it reveals the reality that we do nothing in isolation, but everything we think and do has consequences for someone else. In this short talk we discover the connection between plastic and the poor. How should these facts impact you as you make your next consumption choice?
Changing Church Paradigms
After watching AND LISTENING to this wonderful talk I would love to hear what you think.
Or just click on the link here.
What do we do in the Church that is really born out of the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment and not the scriptures?
The crux of what Sir Ken Robinson is saying should make us think differently about missions, ministry, and even worship.
Excuse Makers
“17 At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’ 18 But one after another they all began to make excuses.” Luke 14 NET
I have the tendency to make excuses.
The interesting thing about excuses is that while we use them in order to manipulate the perception others have, or even we have of reality so that we might magically make our errors and deficiencies disappear while instead we expose them and reveal our brokenness.
Excuses hold us in bondage in order to keep us from becoming something brand new. They help us tell a story that is not true about ourselves. While some use excuses as to why they can’t play basketball as well as Michael Jordan did the rest of us use them in order to derail working out our salvation in order to become perfect, holy, and living sacrifices.
What excuses are you making?
I don’t know if the point of this mashup is that Lebron is making excuses, or that Cleveland is making excuses, but it applies to both.
Thanks Bobbitt!