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(Mikey Lynch's blog: Christian Reflections)
I'm preaching three times at the Tasmanian Ministry Challenge Conference in a month's time. I've chosen the topic 'Priorities and Privation'.
I want to do some hard theological work on how we hold together convictions about the goodness of God's creation and the glory we bring to God by enjoying him and his world... and yet the call the sacrifice.
I've set aside four days to basically read and work on it over the next month, along with working on it in between the cracks of other things.
It's a very very complicated topic. The more I think about it, the messier it gets. It kind of begins to swallow up almost all dimensions of ethics. No big deal.
- I think the topic of 'marriage' is one of the clearest ways in. It has the most detailed in the NT - 1Corinthians 7 alone is quite nuanced.
- I think I will spend one sermon on how we relate the two great commandments.
- And I'm wondering whether I should spend on sermon on the Sabbath? Hard to say.
Any articles, books, sermons, concepts you can recommend?
(Mikey Lynch's blog: Christian Reflections)
I think so. It's on the 28th August at Annandale Village Church.
A friend of mine, Stew Whitt is organising it. Stew is an evangelist and even Moore College couldn't change that ;-)
Check out the website for more information. Should be as fun as something can be that doesn't have ostentatious buttons or sport on the Sabbath.
(Mikey Lynch's blog: Christian Reflections)
For good or ill, most committed bloggers live with the constant question in their mind: Is this bloggable? This could become a neurosis, but I’ll put a positive spin on it: It nurtures a habit of looking for insight and wisdom and value in every situation, no matter how mundane.
(Mikey Lynch's blog: Christian Reflections)
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(Mikey Lynch's blog: Christian Reflections)
One of my apprentices, Amy, came up with this idea for the Uni Fellowship.It's kind of like what a church might do with a 'newcomers night' or'members class'. Short, early evening (5:30-6:30pm). Soup and rolls fordinner (if it's too fancy people owe us something and the meeting is tooserious). Brief vision slot from the staff, then open Q&A time. Our firstone is next Thursday night. I wonder how it will go.
(Mikey Lynch's blog: Christian Reflections)
If in fact Abraham was justified by works he would have something to boast about - but not before God. (Romans 4:2)
That seems to me to be granting that, hypothetically, Abraham was actually perfect in obedience, then there would be ground for boasting before others, but never in the end boasting to God. What's wrong with that? Seems to flow pretty neatly to me...
Commentaries don't like it. And I don't quite understand why.
DJ Moo:
It is more likely that Paul rejects Abraham's claim altogether: all boasting in this context, whether before God or people, must be ruled out. "But not before God", then, rejects the logic stated in the conditional sentence. (Romans, p. 261)
MC Seifrid (please note that we have a DJ and an MC. haha):
The end of 4:2 is not a restrictive phrase, as if Abraham still might boast before humans beings... Paul, rather, introduces here the defining framework in which 'boasting' is to be evaluated: the human relationship to God. (Dict of Use of OT in NT, p. 623)
But my question is: what's the point of the sentence, from this point of view? What is a clear paraphrase? Why bother with the conditional sentence? What's wrong with my reading? Isn't it a bit more natural?
(Mikey Lynch's blog: Christian Reflections)
After the sermon tonight @ Tuesday Crossroads, we had a short break, then the lights were dimmed and the pastor, Bernard Cane, introduced the next segment:
The Christian life involves the whole of our experience - the 'Christian LIFE' is an apt description. So we reflect on and experience our faith in all our life. Not just our minds... or something to that effect.
Then two members of Crossroads, one of whom is a recording artist in the indie music scene (narcoleptic slow-core one Italian reviewer called his music), played a mix of hymns and gospel tunes, all with a great indie folk arrangement.
It was not only incredibly cool, but also a very moving way to reflect on the great truths of the gospel. And also very very cool.
(Mikey Lynch's blog: Christian Reflections)
Found out about this through a Facebook sidebar ad of all things... first time I've ever clicked on webvertising.
Their Facebook page says:
Cornerstone is a new church plant that has in essence already started, but we will begin "core meetings" mid year, and publicly launch in Feb 2011. We love Jesus, love this city, and we really kind of enjoy the culture in it. So in that vein we seek to know our culture, love our people and see lives transformed to live for Jesus. We really are not about shuffling the proverbial Christian deck in Sydney, but rather we are about making disciples from scratch, using contextually relevant methods as a vehicle for bringing the unchanging Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Please join us and stay in touch with what we are doing. We would love to have you contact us and become part of our core planting team. Ultimately we are a church plant that wants to plant more churches, and see the Gospel go forward, so we invite you to take this ride with us
(Mikey Lynch's blog: Christian Reflections)
A graduate from the Uni Fellowship of Christians has written a great article about his struggles with being a good manager. There's some really great insights here:
So now in managing I try to remain mindful of two things: in order to do the most loving thing for staff and the organization I need to have a variety of styles and approaches in order to ‘best fit’ the individuals I deal with – not just the most ‘natural’ or easy for me. This is primarily a pragmatic issue. Secondly – and more importantly – I need to be more ruthless and honest about the motives behind my style or approach. There’s nothing inherently wrong with being nice. But I can’t let my likeness for being liked be the main driver behind my actions – that’s actually the furthest thing from being nice in the long run. There’s obviously a place for informality and flat decision making processes but they shouldn’t be a front for laziness and apathy. This is primarily a discipleship issue.
(Mikey Lynch's blog: Christian Reflections)
What are you actually saying? What is it that you want to thump into us? What do you want to convince us about? What impact do you want to have on us?
Is there anything clear and concrete you are trying to say? I want to know you would grab me but the collar and shake me if you could.
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