We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue.
I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
What do you make of all the divisions in the church today?
7 comments:
Greg,
Oh boy, we are going to need your help on that one. Your previous statement on Truth first was enormosely good.
Churches seem to be cirling in enclaves. I might be wrong because they are all wonderfull people, but some worship the Local Church, some the Bible, some works, and some the Church culture.
At lunch with an oldd friend who is a great Pastor said he is committed to the local Church.
I said Paul said pray for the Saints everywhere, and boy did he get upset, several people came up and introduced themselves and said they had a passion for missions
We left and he said I was to democratic.
Pastors must have a really hard job.
Harry
Harry coe,
Indeed, pastors must have a hard job. They need a calling to find they way to being glocal - global and local.
Prey tell, Greg, what is Calling and what happens to people that don't respond to that? or simple guidance for that matter.
Harry coe,
Calling is many realities, but not least, it is related to vision and having the capacity to being able to see further than one's local context for the sake of Christ. Pastors especially should have that, but it is a calling for us all.
And what is vision, and to what degree can you depend on it? Is it produced from crisis or Faith?
Harry coe,
Vision is following the script of a glocal gospel that illumines a picture of the redemptive work of Christ across cultures. And that can be depended on because it doesn't have its source or origin in me, but in what God is doing in the world and me. Crisis or faith? Sometimes it's probably a combination of the two.
Hey Greg,
You wouldn't have one of those scripts on hand would you?
Just kidding.
Sometimes it seems like someone went ahead of you and planned it all out other times it's not so easy, and that "step of Faith" is hard.
But then like the first century persecution and they got scattered unwillingly.
Harry
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