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Tag Archive - life
Won’t You Be A Neighbor?
Ben Stevens has a fantastic post on The Gospel Coalition’s blog today. (I love The Gospel Coalition. If you’re not familiar with them, check them out.)
Here are some highlights I pulled out, but you should definitely read the full post yourself:
- It is not difficult to get to know your neighbors—it is simply not something most of us value.
- Our homes and apartment buildings give us plenty of space in which to hide.
- You cannot love your neighbor if you do not know that neighbor.
- Christians ought to take this on as a project.
Trying to Talk When Nothing is Knowable
The Beauty and Brokenness of Life
This is a guest post by my good friend, Anthony Weber.
From the Christian perspective, life is beautiful because it was created loaded with shalom, a Hebrew word that encapsulates peace with God/others/self/nature. In a good world, there is no angst, no conflict, no God-shaped hole. There is no loneliness. There is no sense that “I’m not okay”. There is no using of the planet in a destructive way. There is no occurrence in which destructiveness wins.
Fat Geese Stuck in a Fishtank
Just over a week ago, I started posting my notes from some talks of Alan Hirsch’s we attended. Today, I continue recounting these with notes from Thursday evening, which was the culmination of Forge Chicago’s week-long training. (If you’re in the Chicagoland area, I highly recommend you check them out.
- [When it comes to church], the adventure has gone out of the venture
- Communitas [def]: The type of community formed in adversity.
That ‘adversity’ can also include short-term missions, sports teams, etc.) - Communitas – a form of solidarity- forms after wins or losses as long as the team comes together.
- During storms and events like 9/11, communities turn into communitas by a shared experience – often hardship.
- Communitas is a new way of relating. People who were friends or associates become comrades. This is an entirely new dynamic.
- When communitas is established, people will have a lot of “remember when…” stories, because their relationship was borne of, or developed in adversity.
