tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349070.post7145200535450588685..comments2023-08-29T05:36:46.228-06:00Comments on cyber spirit cafe: Ditch the religion?Doug Kingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12830571125611956474noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349070.post-21126013561719377052009-11-21T02:17:25.536-07:002009-11-21T02:17:25.536-07:00Freedom is a challenge. You decide who you are by ...Freedom is a challenge. You decide who you are by what you do. It’s like a question, like a fork in the road. An ongoing question you have to keep answering correctly. There’s a touch of the high wire to it. I’ve never been able to walk high wires, but I get the feeling.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.r4-ds.com.mx" rel="nofollow">dsi r4</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11969895452915858560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349070.post-23819603618193809752009-10-02T21:00:21.533-06:002009-10-02T21:00:21.533-06:00Just wondering Pastor Mack how you are so sure wha...Just wondering Pastor Mack how you are so sure what God wants. Isn't that part of the problem? Just wondering....Rose in the woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06692846741147070937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349070.post-62732373275191572452009-09-23T22:13:58.406-06:002009-09-23T22:13:58.406-06:00Doug, I too like the juxtaposition. Strange as it...Doug, I too like the juxtaposition. Strange as it seems, many Christians are trying to do to Christianity what the buddhist blogger is trying to do with Buddhism. If something no longer quacks, looks, or smells like a duck, can it still be properly called a duck?<br /><br />Yes, let us get rid of the things that scream CHRISTIAN. We can give up the cross, the sacraments, the Bible, and serve coffee while we talk about a Jesus who looks just like American Protestants in the post-Christian West. Ugh. Spirituality is all the rage because we are all frightened like scared children to submit to anything that is not of our own making.<br /><br />Of coure Graham's daughter is in favor of a similar move. Evangelical Protestantism is self-destructively fragmented, bereft of the norms and practices of historic Christianity, and only keeps digging the hole deeper. John Eldredge encourages this in some of his works; it is also found, more insidiously, in Barna's book "Pagan Christianity." Everyone loves Jesus, just not an institution he called his Body. God wants a people, united, not a bunch of American individuals masquerading as Christians.pastor mackhttp://www.pastormack.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349070.post-90456838739263088652009-09-16T22:19:30.924-06:002009-09-16T22:19:30.924-06:00Doug, thanks for this and especially the interesti...Doug, thanks for this and especially the interesting juxtiposition of the two. I'd read Lotz' comments but not the article re: Buddhism. God help us all if it turns into a Walmart thing. <br /><br />But, to your question. As I've been living more on the edge of the church and beyond, I'd have to say that more and more people are expressing this very sentiment: that the church is a problem, a detriment to their faith. <br /><br />We (if I can still be part of the"we") need to deal with this. If we want to still be Church and still offer saving life in Christ, we'd better get the hell out of the way and clean up our act. As it now stands, more people are outside the church BECAUSE of the church not because they don't know enough about it, or its faith. Thanks for this.Jan Eriksson-Perssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01408622728934931924noreply@blogger.com