Thursday, September 20, 2007
Challenged!
I have been challenged a few times during the last week. Challenge 1. Write a meaningful blog in no more than 9 lines – here goes! Challenge 2. Stop turning every simple statement into some sort of philosophy for life. The second one blew me away a bit. I hadn’t realised how much I do that unnecessarily. This morning I came to the realisation that in all my frustration and confusion about the meaning of life etc, God is in control. If God wants me here, for whatever reason, then I should get on with the business of living. If we are in a season of maintenance rather than mission in the West, then that is the context I am asked to live in, so I should do just that. I may want to be part of some great big mission, but if God has other ideas, then so be it.God is in control, and rightly so. Erm, it may be small writing, but I do believe this is 9 lines long! Hoorah!
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Man! That was hard! I couldn't even put line breaks in - I love line breaks! Is anyone elses blog doing some weird German thing too? I know Dawn's was. Its weird because its only some things that are in German!
Kirt - stick with the short blogs. I can read them and almost understand them!
Can I ask a question - who said we are in a season of maintenance rather than mission, because I don't agree and that's not just because I'm irritatingly optimistic about things? I know I can be boringly positive about stuff but there is emormous amounts of mission being planned in England right now...check out the Hope 08 website for a start.Even the SA is getting involved - woah! and there are pockets of stuff going on even in our division.....I know, CRAZY!
Oh re the german thing - it's not cos I've added a friend who is swiss german is it? seems a co-incidence....probably is...???
Kirst! I love thinking (sometimes) but i love when you just get that feeling of- whatever! its all in control! its such a nice place to be I think. (I know that is almost a waste of a comment, just wanted to share!)s
how did u do that... i was trying so hard to just be content with, oh whatever, and it wouldnt work!!! share your secret!!!!
Becks - yeah I know what you mean. I don't often like thinking so much but its something I just can't really help but do. I guess I am just a control freak!
Liz - My comment about maintenance / mission was very directly linked to my previous blog - which I know was too long for people to really read properly. I didn't mean so much in terms of what the church is doing, as God's plan for the here and now.
My frustration here is about the fact that in the West in these days we do not see massive numbers of conversions. We don't have the Acts 2 situations, or the revivals that other Countries experience. I think a lot of that is to do with the current culture we live in and sometimes I get frustrated that God doesn't just break through that with His Spirit and 'give us another pentecost' as we sing so often. Its not that the church isn't involved in mission (because I know it is, and is trying very hard etc. Its more about whether God might just be asking us to be patient and allow Him to just maintain us at the moment.
In other words its not so much about what we are / aren't doing, as it is about what God is / isn't doing.
Its another one of those philosophies I am trying to erradicate!
Sarah - I didn't say I had achieved it - I said it was a challenge. I thought those thoughts this morning mainly because of your text! Talk about being philosophical!
Oh......ok gotcha!
What's taht all abot Kirsty? A short blog but a long comment. I don't think that counts as a short blog!
Fair point - but it was only in response to another comment! I will let myself get away with that one!!!!
Kirsty that is so not something you should be allowed to get away with. I was just about to comment and congratulate you on such a short and concise post (seeing as the act of being short and concise is somethng that, as you know, I struggle with and admire in others). But when I enter the comments page you've left 4 separate comments, one of which is of Dostoyevskyan proportions. I'm not going to congratulate you for that. That's like an alcoholic managing to stay out of a pub but then going for a quiet drink in a side alley. The alcoholic has achieved nothing. And neither have you. Shame on you Kirsty McLongblog, shame on you!
Subtext to Glyn's message:
"Glyn is procrastinating and avoiding doing any work."
;)
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