Two kids had emergencies today, the first day it was under 32 degrees.
Andy Rowell @AndyRowell Public Service Announcement: When the temperature is below freezing, children don’t realize they have to go until it is too late.
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Month: November 2015
Women are typically given a lot of advice.
This Twitter account reverses the advice and applies it to men (to try to get people to realize how women are often treated).
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manwhohasitall @manwhohasitall Kids in bed? Wife back on the playstation? Time to light a scented candle, snack on ONE almond & drink a full glass of water. 'Me time'.
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An Episcopal friend of mine is worried about how many churches accommodate Christians to such an extent that the fierceness of the gospel is diluted. I talked about the importance of being accessible but agreed with him about being wary of overcontextualizing.
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Wanting church to be comfortable for new people usually just means wanting it to be comfortable for moderately traumatized post-evangelicals
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@adalehunt Yes, "comfortable" is wrong. Correct is missionary mindset: trying to communicate in such a way that new people understand.
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@adalehunt Missionary approach navigates between: overcontextualization (syncretism, comfortable) and failure to communicate (withdrawal).
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@adalehunt Professor Lindbeck suggests that those who give primacy to the question of how the Gospel is preached in a post-Christian …
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@adalehunt environment ‘regularly become liberal foundationalists’, preoccupied with translating the Gospel into alien terms, …
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@adalehunt or at least redefining it in response to secular questions. I am not so sure." Rowan Williams, On Christian Theology, 38.
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@AndyRowell You know how I love me some Rowan Williams, & in his larger critique of Lindbeck I think he's right. I don't think, however…
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@AndyRowell that what the gathered Church does in the liturgy is proclaim the Gospel to newcomers, at least not by purposeful orientation…
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Rail Bias @adalehunt @AndyRowell that what the gathered Church does in the liturgy is proclaim the Gospel to newcomers, at least not by purposeful orientation…
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@AndyRowell What we're doing is, *as a called people*, responding to what the Gospel has done for us. We're addressing God, not newcomers
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@adalehunt All good comments. 1 rejoiner: Paul wants intelligibility in worship because of "outsiders or unbelievers" in 1 Cor 14:16, 23-25.
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@AndyRowell I really don't think it is a workable analogy. Massive diff btwn wild charismata like tongues & ordered worship in the venacular
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@AndyRowell Was raised old skool AoG; been to those 'revivals.' Even *I* didn't get what was going on half the time 🙂
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@sheddenm @adalehunt My like means that I'm glad you chimed in but does not connote agreement. 🙂
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@AndyRowell @adalehunt I like O'Donvan's notion of 'demanding comfort.'
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@AndyRowell @adalehunt he does say regularly and not always in the quote.;) I wouldn't push comfortable but I don't think inviting is bad.
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@sheddenm @adalehunt Good. I get it: "demanding comfort" or your word "fierce/potent invitational" as stance of welcome without compromise.
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