Quote of the DAY

“To be sure, we do not like gatherings (speaking of church services), of strangers who never meet or know each other outside of Sundays, who sit passively while virtual strangers preach and lead singing, who put up with second rate pseudo-community under the guise of connection with each other, who live different lives from Monday to Saturday than they do on Sunday, whose sole expression of worship is pop-style praise and worship, who rarely laugh together, fight injustice together, eat together, pray together, raise each others Children together, serve the poor together, or share Jesus with those who have not been set free.” Pg. 172-173

From “ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church” by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost

Quote of the Day

“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilization to pieces, turn the world upside down, and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of good literature.”

-Gandhi

1st Post

Why are first posts always the most difficult to write?

Perhaps it’s because I’ve “started blogging” something like half a dozen times in the past.  Perhaps it’s because I don’t know what all of this will end up looking like.  Maybe it’s because I’m not that focused a writer/thinker and have great difficulty sticking with an idea.  

Probably it’s some combination thereof.  Or maybe it’s something else entirely.

I work at Mount Soledad Presbyterian Church.  Please, please, please don’t hold anything I say against these wonderful people.  Anyway, not too long ago, with the encouragement of our session, I started thinking about what a confirmation process might look like for our teenagers.  Our church is coming out of a rough period, and confirmation is something that hasn’t happened for some time.  Which basically means we’re starting over.

So, for starters, this blog will provide me an opportunity to think theologically (and publicly) about what we teach the next generation and why.  It will also undoubtedly devolve into all kinds of other conversations, rants, and off topic theological musings.  So be it.  

Let’s see what happens this time.