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Published April 13, 2008 by

Forge Day 2

Day 2 of Forge Grassroots, churned along nicely with a great big breakfast to kick us off. I drank a lot of coffee yesterday.

Sally Morgenthaler in the morning, she took a bit to win me over but once things progressed passed a fairly stock standard call about being okay with self it developed interestingly and got quite personal. People should always, always share stories – they are so much more powerful. Alas my story sharing, although prolific online, is more a ‘tell information’ type of thing in person.

Oh yes, I had a funny little realisation yesterday driving home about how my collecting gene (Once thought to be put to a peaceful and thankful rest), spills over into how I think. I collect information – in a sense, subconciously – and if it’s relevant, I share it. This isn’t always a good thing.

Tom Sine storytelling – he was excellent, so excellent I went and bought his book (After remembering that I already own Mustard Seed vs. McWorld)

Then went to a work-shop and elective on Micro Church (The elective was probably not worth our while, but the workshop was great).

And heard Tall Skinny Kiwi in the evening – which was really helpful (and good) on all kinds of levels. He is a fellow blogger, that I haven’t followed very well at all.

And now I have to run and head off to the city! More elaboration later.

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Published March 24, 2008 by

Rewind the week

be_kind_rewind_post.jpgAfter an exceptionally busy weekend and a crashed blog server, it’s time for another tedious fill-in.

I managed to catch Michel Gondry’s new film Be Kind Rewind I confess I was disappointed in that it lacked such strangeness as the other two. I did enjoy the side comment about Citizen Kane’s weird time sequence and the mention that ‘that’s been done before’. I also enjoyed the fact that when walking out of the cinema, two old ladies were carrying a portable DVD player. Oh the irony! Despite all, it’s a fun and clever movie, I just didn’t like it quite so much as the Science of Sleep – which blew me away. Be Kind is almost too Jack Black.

Easter consisted of a ‘stations’ art/music installation at my church. We were a little rushed through but I really appreciate the launch into acknowledging and using the ‘other’ type talent around the place that is effective for the means and communal minded. It did make for good contemplation. I only wish I had longer. My little sister had two pieces in the exhibition and apparently someone has offered to buy them… I’ve been at her to sell her artwork, so perhaps now she’ll pay attention.

And yesterday was Anne’s (Geoff’s mum) birthday, so we went around there and typically ate too much roast dinner, saw the Grandparents and played Settlers, Blokus etc.

It’s been a tough year to stop enough to remember Jesus over this period. I think I need to do something about that.

In other news, Soul Survivor is coming up this week, and I really, really need to apply for a passport for June’s endeavor of returning to my childhood.

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Published March 20, 2008 by

Box head

“We could always just hand out card board boxes with little cut outs for a eyes as we enter the church so then no one can make any judgements…” – Hayley from Gush

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Published March 2, 2008 by

Church outside

cleanupToday a percentage of our church participated in Clean Up Australia Day.

It was interesting, because last night I confessed to Geoff that I really didn’t want to be a part of it and then went on to try and justify that I thought it wasn’t a good idea and ‘how was it really helping the community’/’we could do other things better with this time’. He heard me out – knows me far too well, and told me I was wrong. Then about ten minutes later I worked out that it was really only just about me not wanting to do it and felt guilty so I told him and he let me know he knew that’s what I was all along and rightfully laughed about it. As it was, I did feel bad about not wanting to do it, but I still didn’t want to take part – is there really much point forcing yourself to want to when you simply don’t?

Anyway as it turned out, church today (which was just music and communion before the cleanup during normal sermon time) felt very flat and fake.

And here it is. I enjoyed myself cleaning up. The sun was beautiful, the people were fun and talking and interacting with people they didn’t know so well and doing something. And really it felt a whole lot more like how church should be.

I do like it when God sticks it to me.

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Published February 29, 2008 by

Hermenutics Quiz

I scored 62 and thought the question on the Sabbath didn’t have the option I wanted.

The moderate hermeneutic might be seen as the voice of reason and open-mindedness. Moderates generally score between 53 to 65. Many are conservative on some issues and progressive on others. It intrigues that conservatives tend to be progressive on the same issues, while progressives tend to be conservative on the same issues. Nonetheless, moderates have a flexible hermeneutic that gives them the freedom to pick and choose on which issues they will be progressive or conservative. For that reason, moderates are more open to the charge of inconsistency. What impresses me most about moderates are the struggles they endure to render judgments on hermeneutical issues.

Take the Hermenutics quiz.

Then tell me what you think about it.

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