- I spent most of the day in training and felt lost for a great majority of the time. The training was pretty technical and I didn't understand most of the terms. The teacher spends most of her days normally dealing with this type of stuff and was flying through it without a second thought as to whether these terms meant anything to me. The thought that stuck me was that is what we do a lot of the time when we gather as a church family. We use terms like sanctification, baptism, tithing, etc. that most people who haven't dealt with it much, have no clue what we are talking about. We fly through it without a second thought as to whether it makes sense to anyone else. It makes sense to us, so doesn't everyone else understand these terms? Wonder if we need to include a glossary of terms we us? Something that says hear is what we are talking about when we say this. What good is it if you can't easily understand the words? Good to see things from a new perspective every so often.
- Grace is amazing. (I think someone should write a song about that.) Knowing that even when I sin, God has covered that. Selfishness, gossip, anger, sexual sins, lying... doesn't matter what type of sin, His grace covers it. Wonder why we are so quick to accept that total inclusion for "our" sins by this grace, but not so much when it is someone else's sin that we don't struggle with? Grace covers it all from the "little" sins to the "big" ones. (By the way, no such thing as little or big sins. They are all equal, even though we want to rank them according to some scale that is justified in our minds.) Don't forget it is amazing for all people... you and the person you think is beyond help.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Just wondering
Two thoughts from today.
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Forgive my rant. But I'm tired of the political world being the place where it's still ok for religious people (even thoughs who are usually humble..... thoughs that know better) to judge people.
I get tired of hearing how terrible it is that people are taking advantage of welfare in this country, never remembering that the reality of our spiritual situation (our repeated hardness of heart...... vs Gods ongoing grace) just the fact of our continued existence is the greatest abuse of welfare that the world has ever known.
Why do we remember that when were sitting in the pew taking communion. But we forget when were watching the angry political guy on tv or listening to him on the radio????
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