a few weeks back i had the pleasure of speaking at amy's home church evangel worship center over in menasha. it had been a few weeks (as in two months) since i had last preached. which is the longest stretch i have had of non-public speaking since graduating in '00. all went well (at least i thought it did).
we looked at living life right here, right now (not through the lens of van halen...sorry). of how tomorrow and the idea of having fun then can rob us from being in the present. we also looked the flip of the past getting in the way of now.
which is exactly what i was doing the night before... i was drudging through all these questions of do i really have anything to add to this faith conversation? or does this even matter? all those good kick you in the gut self esteem questions. and then i was spinning around all these what-if's. past and future very much in the way.
what would happen if we who say we follow christ really got in the present. away from our "future hope" stuff that really excused us from living responsibly toward our neighbors, environment, and social issues. what would the church look like if we got away from the idea of eternal life being down the road and realized that it is about right now? what would it look like to really kick off the past stuff that mucks us up? i wonder.
anyway, here's a link to the message...nothing fancy, just another conversation of trying to figure faith and life and stuff out a bit more.
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