Monday, November 29, 2004

Naming Jesus in Situations

We just had a great conversation at work about helping people "name Jesus in situations" - about how much we as Christians so often go up one end of "preaching the gospel" or "just" living in the midst of people, living redemptive lives etc but not actually naming Jesus in situations.
I wonder how do we stay in the tension on this? How do we help others do that too? I reckon for most of us we live at either extreme and swing between them rather than being on a different plane or living with the tension.
How would you say Neo lives in/outside this tension?

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Losing or finding ourselves

Been dwelling quite a bit in a crazy couple of weeks on a statements from the Story we find ourselves in - actually the couple of sentences in the book that relate to the title. There's a bit that talks about the general way that people live being the story that we lose oursvles in whereas the world as God's created it to be being the story that we find ourselves in. Been thinking quite a bit about whether I'm living in a place of being lost of found coming out of those thoughts. Interesting thing to have a the back of your mind!