It's for the Kids (me)

So, I found out that Mattel is bringing out Children's toys of the Justice League, including the Flash! I'm so there, buying the whole set...Twice. C'mon, you gotta have one for you and one for the future kids. Who's with me. Pre-emptively buying for the genetic beings that shall spring from your loins in the future. It's an investment in the future.

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A new Type of Systematic

So, What is Scripture?

Is it the 66 books that we as Protestants have deemed as Scripture? Does it include the apocrypha? Is it a system of propositions that one must accept in order to be correct with God? Do we just experience it as true for ourselves? Does scripture just stop after the Bible ends? We tend to view (a quote from scripture) that All Scripture is God Breathed - 2 Timothy.

So what does that mean?

Interesting that you ask. Well, first of, God breathed - from Genesis - Is the ability of God to give life to something. So, I'm going to make a statement here.

I believe that Scripture is only scripture when God breathes life into it - When God speaks into it. God gives life to scripture, so then the bible is just words until God reveals Godself in it.

Okay, so is the bible the only scripture then, Or can God breathed make other things scripture as well?

Well, scripture seems to be a narrative of how a people try to be true to the way that God revealed Godself to them. It is a story of God working with humanity. We believe this narrative to be most true to the way that God really is. So, Yes, the Bible is Scripture, because it attests to God's nature with the world, especially in the person of Jesus Christ. But does scripture end at the last words of Revelation, before 70 AD? I argue that it does not. God still works with God's chosen people, and those experience are attested to throughout Church history. Now, these Experiences have to line up with the "Scriptural Experiences" especially with the real person of Jesus.

So, I say that Scripture and Tradition tie up very well together, and we have to be able to read through the "Cloud of Witnesses" that is the church and find what lines up with Scripture. Therefore, The history of the people of God continues, and we can gain much of the knowledge of God's nature as it continues, through the lens of Jesus Christ.

I propose that Theology is not so much a systematic making a framework of philisophical categories.
I propose that Theology is more fitting your narrative in the history of the church. It should start - I know God through the movement of the story of God that informed my tradition and how God has related by breathing life into my experiences.

- Keep in mind that it must coincide with God's revelation as Jesus Christ. That is what makes it Scripture.

A post of prophanities that will add so much color and understanding to your life you will feel like an angel spoke to you. Though the violent tone is not good here, the message is fairly understandable. I think she's right. Check it out.

Logan

http://www.violentacres.com/archives/59/two-phrases-that-destroyed-american-culture

So, I have an interesting question. How do we truly value the opinions of others when we are trying to accurately teach? What form does teaching take in this instance? Is it one where we offer different lenses for people to look through and then let them pick the lens? Do we just ask questions and let them answer on their own?

The reason I ask this is because it is a new way to teach community: Value a person, value their opinions, learn with them.

Carl and I are trying to pioneer this approach with the youth group in order to revere them as humans, friends, and fellow siblings in the kingdom of God.

There are a few other ideas that we need to think about when approaching community.

Mission: what does it mean to see our world not as one that we are familiar with and fit into, but as one that is strange that we must learn? What does it mean to truly find our neighbor not as "the same community" "fellow-American" "fellow in understanding and narrative", but to understand them as Wholly Other, Unique in Narrative, Stranger in Culture? How do we begin to approach the world? Hopefully earnestly trying to understand their context and to narrate the Gospel in their language and stories. (missions was way beyond the American church, and they still are doing a better job)

Parish: what does it mean to not try to get everyone, but only those in our immediate context, building relationships with neighbors, and not the entire populous? How does this effect the way church is done, both in evangelism, worship, discipleship, and mission? What needs should be met with this understanding? (It should be a community of friends)

Celebration of Community: How do we celebrate the community of our parish, what cultural ways can we celebrate the stories of those around us? In essence, how do we get involved festively?

Incarnation: How do we move beyond lectures and teaching, beyond conversation and coffee (though this can be incarnational) to real action? What does it mean to embody the gospel and live it? Why don't we have set aside incarnational times in the church week for the people to embody the gospel?

In all that I say, it comes from this: Let the Wisdom of God that shapes the earth, and forms relationships in covenant, fully actualized in Jesus Christ, breathe life into your flesh so that you to can actualize the wisdom of God.


Peace be with you

Logan Kruck

Hey guys: I have created a blog on blogger.com called NewSpace - It is a community where we can begin to talk about what real community looks like. It's part of my project to truly develop a "set apart" but "in community" church with the world. So you can look up the blog online - NewSpace:Brownstone, and just comment, or you can log on and put major posts for people to comment on. This is truly to develop an experimental community of grassroots grace of the Nazarene/Wesleyan/Catholic/Church/Jesus narrative that informs our lives. Please join in and expound to help us understand what true community looks like. Don't be scared to speculate, to imagine, or to be realistic. Just be graceful.

Just testing the blog to see if it works, lets hope so