Monthly Archive for July, 2006

Superficiality

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Ernie
on July 31, 2006
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I think the two main issues for Christianity today aren’t the ones most often thought. Christians in America today seem to be hot and bothered about gays and abortion. George Barna also agrees that these are the “hot buttons” for many Christians. It’s as though if we coud make everyone straight and pro-life, the world would be safe. Isn’t it strange that two things that Jesus said nothing about, the church in America (not in other parts of the world) majors on?

Amazing distractions!

For me, the two major problems for Christianity (in America) are superficiality and a false image of God!
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Division and Comparison

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Ernie
on July 30, 2006
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I don’t know what the possibility of getting rid of the Either-Or world that exists in the Western church is; however, I know it needs to be one of the first objectives.

This black and white world that exists especially in the church has to go. The dualism of religion is nothing but destructive. The US vs. THEM does not serve the Kingdom of God or the cause of Jesus. And the simplistic two-tiered cosmos allows no room for true Christian mysticism. And finally, I find it baffling that so many outside the church get it, while those of the cloth seemingly do not.

Let me take one example. The movie, The Matrix.
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Free to Be

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Shawn
on July 30, 2006
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July 30, 2006 - We are free to be and live the greatest possible life that one can imagine, but for some reason, too many choose a different life. In our egoic state we somehow think that our way and our plans are better than God’s. We have been hard-wired and created to be so much more than we are. Isn’t it about time we started trusting God for the BEST of life, instead of living our mediocre one?

 
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Who Jesus Is

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Ernie
on July 29, 2006
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God became man that man might become God. Athanasius

Such quotes and statements bring anywhere from fear to hope to a person depending upon where one has placed their security. And that’s a good question isn’t it. Where is our security? In America it is a dangerously subtle proposition. It’s so easy to rely upon the ability to make wealth, pension plans, medical insurance, and a myriad of entitlement and governmental programs. The prosperity gospel has replaced the four gospels of the New Testament in many churches in America. God’s not against wealth. He wants us to be successful and prosper. He just wants us to allow Him to do it. But, we Americans are an impatient lot. If you live in a third world country, chances are your security comes from out there, some place other than from just yourself though.
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The Lost Internal Control

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Ernie
on July 29, 2006
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One of the interesting mental contructs that has developed over the last 25-50 years has been a switch from individual to social responsibility: in the wrong way. we now look to the government for entitlement, and all things that relate to us living a successful and prosperous life. And it make it so much easier to plat the blame game with an entity than a person. Continue reading ‘The Lost Internal Control’

Two Options

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Ernie
on July 27, 2006
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True spirituality is what you do with your pain!

We basically have two options. We can transmit the pain or we can transform it, meaning that we allow it to transform us. Without spiritual understanding we will always take whatever pain we have suffered, or are suffering, and we’ll project it on to someone else that gets close to our hot button.

If we have been rejected a couple of times, before long we will find ourselves rejecting others at the slightest indication, just so we aren’t rejected first. If we’ve not received love, we will sooner or later withhold our love from others. If we feel we’ve been misunderstood, it becomes easy for us to shut off others and judge them at the slightest provocation.

Listen, no one else is your problem.
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