I’m thankful for my community that I’m a part of. It is sometimes exciting, sometimes boring, sometimes calm, sometimes tumultuous, sometimes religious, sometimes sinful, sometimes uniform, sometimes incredibly diverse. In any case, it is my community. I’m a part of it. I have friends I love and who love me. We are bound together somehow. And even though we individually go through seasons where we feel disconnected, alienated and isolated, when we come to our senses we know that our... Read more
So yesterday I made some suggestions that the community shouldn’t assume when it has pleased the Lord. Like I said, I think this can be a fatal mistake. This has always been the problem of humanity and the problem with the church. We do something, it seems to work, so we bottle it to use again in the future. We even sell it if we can. Not long ago Willow Creek made the public confession that their high-profile and lucrative... Read more
I appreciate everyone’s comments on yesterday’s post about the Coffee House raising money for Darfur. I am very proud of the young people who put it on and the people who gave towards this important issue. I always try to be cautious though about using language such as, “Now you guys have got it right! You are on the right track! This is what it is all about! Now you are truly living meaningfully!” It is so tempting to think... Read more
On Friday night, one of our young adults Andrew Falk (pictured first directly below) with the help of friends and the use of our building, put on a coffee-house. All the funds raised… close to $1,000… is going to the Red Cross in Darfur. It did my heart good to see him pull this off. I never suggested it, nor did anyone else. He felt called to do this all on his own, and with some helped pulled off an... Read more
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