Tales of a Secret Rockstar

Here's a gew random thoughts. because it is ear;y in the morning and I cannot sleep.  I am slowly morphing into an owl.  Seriously, I'm a hoot.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeheeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeheeeeeeeee.  That joke was for HA.

Okay first, I think that pastors should not be careless about their illustrations.  It's just a bad idea.  Almost as bad an idea as starting a paragraph with the word "okay."  It's like I'm a fourteen year old girl, and this is my emo blog.  ANd I just made fun of emo.  How old is that joke?  At any rate, I was at this church on Sunday, and they had a guest speaker.  He was talking about our inheritance as Christians.  At one point, he commented that if any of us had a rich uncle (like everyone's favourite Rich Uncle Pennybags) who died and left a will, we would want to go through that will to find out how to get our portion of the inheritance.  Sensible enough,  But then he said, "The Bible is like God's last will and testament to us."  Clearly attempting to play on the "testament" idea.  However, as I thought about it I realized, "There is no way of saying what he just said without implying that God is dead!"  Did he mean to imply such a thing?  Of course not.  But one careless analogy left me with a sour taste in my mouth.  It would only take about three seconds to think that through before saying it.  I really would not mind if a preacher literally paused for three seconds in silence while he processed an analogy like that to its logical conclusion.  It's just unecessary to always make a congregation have to listen to certain implications and disregard others.  The whole "meat and bones/ baby and bathwater" argument.
Damn babies.

I'm also having a problem with the sometimes subtle and somtimes not so sublte dualism that is rampant in the church.  This idea that matter and the mind is on one side of a divide, and the spirit on another.  Who's idea was this?  I get tired of preachers telling me that I somehow have to absorb God's word in to my spirit.  Fair enough, but how do I do that without thinking about it?  Meditation is a mental as well as a spiritual exercise.  There is truth to the idea that the mind cannot fully comprehend the things of God.  However, those that claim to have bypassed the mind in favour of the spirit deserve to be questioned.  God's truth is revealed by His Word and His Spirit, as far as my elementary understanding goes.  There cannot be one without the other.  Although I have not researched this area, I would venture to say that those who have had the most dramatic, Holy Spirit inspired conversions (A muslim having a vision of Christ for example), are the ones who are the most excited and hungry to read the word of God.  Perhaps I am crazy on this issue.  But I think that a little research would probably show this to be true in most cases.  Perhaps I will research this.  Anyways, all this to say that the church should seek to adapt a Biblical idea of body and spirit, as well as a Biblical epistomology.  God won't be offended if we do a little thinking.

Finally, I am becoming more convinced that all Subway employees eventually become superheroes, if they dedicate themselves to their training.  I am probably no more than two weeks away from superhero of sandwich making status.

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