Update on Doing Life Together

So our house church/missional community/emergent church/new monastic/cell group/sect just finished sharing our stories over the last four weeks. It was good to hear where everyone came from. It was good to here were people wanted to be going. It was good and bad that no one knows where this is going.

Last week we discussed the idea of community and doing life together. We talked about what we thought it was, what was the point of doing it, and then if X was the point did we still want to do it.

This week we are discussing the book of common prayer and what it has to say for this week. Hopefully we will also talk about what people want to do in regards to service and World Relief.

One Perception I Wish The Church Was Known For

One Perception I Wish The Church Was Known For:

1. Radical love. Silly love. Love that defies rational explanation. Love that can only be explained by people following in the footsteps of one who was willing to lose his life that all may gain theirs. This love should permeate every decision we make, from the way we treat our neighbor to way we enact foreign policy.

From Willzhead

Quotes I like

Nothing that you have not given away will ever truly be yours. - c.s. lewis

By itself, experience mans nothing. Meaning is never in the event, but is always in the mind of the meaning-maker - Michael Hall

If you have an old car you need to join

Here is a great site (Junky Car Club.com) dedicated to spreading the message of "Living on less so you can give more." While my car is only 6 years old I plan on keeping it until its 10 years old so I can become an elite member.

Quote

I read this today:

"It's about that anonymous fear thing, sitting in traffic, thinking, 'I'm sure I'm supposed to be doing something else'...

That rings true to me.

Ecclesiastes - You are an interesting book

This weekend TP and I went to a vietnamese restaurant to discuss this confusing book.

We didn't talk much about the book but more about what the whole bible was about. Not an easy subject even though I think we got somewhere.

TP made the point that the last few sentences of the EC book shouldn't detract from the rest of the book. I may agree. Had no idea what the rest of the book meant though.