Comments on: Great…this should really be good for discipleship and spiritual formation…..

By: ashley

ashley — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:41:11 +0000

thats so random that you posted on this because we were just talking about that last night at church and i was going to write on it this evening but you beat me to it. blasted. haha oh well.

By: Jenn Lindsay

Jenn Lindsay — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:31:32 +0000

wow, that’s pretty sad… i’m kinda speechless, actually…people need to slow down!

i came across this article this afternoon and thought you might be interested since you’re such a reader!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050922/ap_on_en_mo/hollywood_family_values

By: GL

GL — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:33:39 +0000

For real. I can guess what supporters of this product would say– people in our culture are crazy busy and we have to reach them. We have to adjust to the market.

Really? I see it this way- the Church has both a prophetic voice and a priestly voice. We’ve been doing great with the priestly voice, soothing the wounds and dislocations engendered by modernity and sending our people back into the fray. We’ve got programs and books and seminars for EVERYthing that hurts.

But what happened to the prophetic voice? Why not call the very structures and conditions of modernity (or hyper-modernity) into question? If social forces incline us to live crazy lives that wound us, instead of living lives of wisdom that help us flourish, why not speak prophetically against those social forces?

Of course some (many? most?) will blow off the Church’s prophetic pronouncements, but the Gospel has always been for those who have ears to hear.

By: Don

Don — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:30:50 +0000

I’ll tell you what, if you don’t have time to read the bible… (I should be careful and not condemn myself with what I say here)

Well, we all just need to make time for certain things, and reading the Bible is one of them. Of course, if I could get Barth in 100 minutes…