I really like this concept I am the church.

Geoff talked about this when he was running youth this morning, about the necessary collective of Christianity.

Sooo… can a hermit off in the forest on his own island be a Christian? Must belief be accompanied by action?

I think so.

I like how God made two people to start us off.

I like how God is three.

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The homework monsters slam down hard sometimes, Friday’s post has been delayed until now.

On Thursday I bit the bullet of my, ‘avoid city driving where possible’ rule and drove to work. It’s a bit funny really, because work moved offices on Friday and of all the time I’ve been working at the Albert Park office (equivalent to almost two years), I’ve never driven in. It’s been the train and the tram with my beloved Connex. But for the sake of a free desk chair when your one has had a broken wheel for two months, you’ll do anything.

So I drove in. The right turn I was meant to make turned out to not be a right turn due to the No Right Turn sign, so I detoured somehow via Prahran (near uni) and got to work a bit late. No huge drama.

Seven and a half hours later, the chair fit nicely into my currently very dilapidated car and I set off back home. I managed to do something wrong again and wound up driving through a very busy street in the city during peak hour. Slightly terrifying, but I worked out where the freeway was fairly quickly and found the way home.

Here’s the ironic thing.

We moved offices on Friday – a few suburbs across the city to a beautiful and beautifully restored terrace house. I’ll share photos when I can. But the strange way that I drove home wound up being exactly the way I drove to the new place with Ian.

Then get this. I’ve been crapping on about how I’m in love with Barcelona chairs for a few posts now and suddenly I find out that work is getting some (replicas I assume, and they are white) but I mean what is the likely hood of that! Hearing that pulled my internal grin onto my face.

It has been a beautifully ironic weekend.

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Over on the Jesus Creed blog is a story/article about homosexuality.

You should go and read it, even if you don’t read anything else today (unless it’s my survey).

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Righto well time for you nice blog readers to do me a favor.

For my delightful *cough* uni subject Methods of Investigation, Kellie and I are doing some research for a ‘drug awareness campaign’ using celebrity role models of all things.

Anyway if you could take two minutes to whack some answers in boxes, it’d be much appreciated – it’s totally anonymous.

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chair.jpgA chair is a very human thing, infact the whole shape of a chair reflects the human body. Despite the millions of varieties the chair has a fairly standard structure: legs, a seat, usually a back and sometimes arms.

In the lecture I went to yesterday we stopped to consider chairs and took this consideration further in looking briefly at thrones.

A throne is chair, a grand chair mind you, and yet carries with it some kind of symbolic influence.

There’s the whole kings thrones in reality, movie and theatre set. There’s the unspoken throne of a ‘man’s castle’ and hence his English wingback chair-throne as the head of the family.

A chair can oddly dictate a position of power. (And also strip the person of power if it happens to be something like a dentist chair).

I find it interesting that the Bible often speaks about the throne of God. Revelation 4 is set around the ‘throne’.

“At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne. Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.” (Rev 4:2-6)

A chair, a throne a ‘seat of power’ seems a very human concept. So is Revelation talking literally or figuratively? I never really know how to interpret Revelation. I usually avoid it to spare confusion. Pathetic but true.

After a discussion a few weeks back around the confusion about God appearing to ‘kill people’ in the Old Testament, I went home and read a big fat chunk of Revelation. I’m not sure why I went there, but it was startlingly relevant.

I don’t want to interpret the whole Bible figuratively as much as I don’t want to interpret the whole Bible literally. Who knows where to draw lines? Here, there. They intersect and overlap, we can only hope for those rare moments of insight.

Hit things home. Place them in the context of our lives, our minds, our will and lack of understanding. And hope we don’t give up reading and looking for them in the meantime.

It’s a funny thing, building a biblical framework without a distinct frame to put it in, but surely it’s the way it must be done.

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