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:
ZZ will be closed for vacation until the 6th of August. I’m looking forward to renewing the conversation and dialogue then. For now – Bonjour.
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:
Do you see anything wrong with Peter’s answer to Jesus’ question in Mk 8: But who do you say that I am?
8:22
And they came to Beth-sa'ida. And some people brought to him a blind man, and begged him to touch him.
8:23
And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the village; and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, "Do you see anything?"
8:24
And he looked up and said, "I see men; but they look like trees, walking."
8:25
Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and saw everything clearly.
8:26
And he sent him away to his home, saying, "Do not even enter the village."
8:27
And Jesus went on with his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"
8:28
And they told him, "John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others one of the prophets."
8:29
And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ."
8:30
And he charged them to tell no one about him.
8:31
And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
8:32
And he said this plainly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
8:33
But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your focus not on divine things, but human things."
8:34
And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, "If any would come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
8:35
For those who want to save their life will lose it; and those who lose life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.
8:36
For what does it profit them to gain the whole world and lose their life?
8:37
For what can anyone give in return for their life?
8:38
For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
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:
Do you think that loving an uninformed or arrogant Christian legalist-fundamentalist who needs to change their outlook, way of relating and understanding might contribute to a change taking place?
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 should we do when a change in attitude, understanding, and mentality is necessary, but some Christians are unaware of this because of weakness or simplicity?
