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following the way of Jesus in the land of our captivityAn Open Letter from a Post-Loving Emerger (of course it’s an open letter, I’m post-foreclosed!)
Started by markvans · 1 year ago
Dear Modern Church,
Well, it comes to this. I’ve been reading a bit of emerg(ing, ent, ish) stuff lately, and I’ve come to embrace myself as a post-modern, post-evangelical, post-protestant, post-propositional language, post-Christian, post-backwards, post-irrelevant, post-anything-I-think-has-to-do-with-you, person of faith. It’s not that ... Continue reading »
Well, it comes to this. I’ve been reading a bit of emerg(ing, ent, ish) stuff lately, and I’ve come to embrace myself as a post-modern, post-evangelical, post-protestant, post-propositional language, post-Christian, post-backwards, post-irrelevant, post-anything-I-think-has-to-do-with-you, person of faith. It’s not that ... Continue reading »
1 year ago
This ties right in to the whole 'loving your enemy includes your leaders, not just theirs' theme from a week or so ago.
Loving the church doesn't just mean those that are trying, or are doing things the way you want them to be. It means the quacks, the fundamentalists, the bastards, the addicts, the ego-centric, the gregarious and all other streams and variants. Even bee-hive hairdos don't discount anyone.
Love & be at peace
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shalom