Random ramblings
Tuesday, 13 January, 2004
I woke up this morning to Ben crying out, “I'll kill you!” Thankfully, he wasn't dreaming about me. I dreamt about my Sunday School kids running races on bright green lawns amongst some old ruins. I called one of them by the wrong name and got embarrassed. Today I spent three hours clearing boxes out of the storeroom, removing staples and paperclips from old piles of papers so I can throw them into recycling, dusting the tops of bookshelves that have become filthy with grime, and going through old archived files that I would rather leave untouched. I haven't done the ironing in three weeks and am starting to run out of work clothes. Oh dear. Last night I tried a new design for the ECU main meeting outline. We normally have an A5 one (A4 folded in half). I tried to make one that was A4 folded vertically in half. Ben said it looked weird and long. On Wednesday we've been asked to do an item as part of the Healing Service at St. Andrew's Cathedral (6 pm if you're interested in coming—it's right next to the Town Hall on George St). Lizz (Ben's sister) wanted to do it too but so far we haven't practiced together at all. Why is it that half the girls I meet up with don't actually want to read the Bible when we meet up? They'll happily sit and talk for ages but when it comes to actually sitting down and opening the word of God, they get skittish. These are Christian girls, too. C.S. Lewis would never have written the Narnia chronicles if it hadn't been for the Second World War. He didn't have much to do with children before it but during it all these kids were evacuated from London and sent to stay at his house. So, despite being normally quite shy around kids, he made friends with them and eventually wrote Narnia.Posted in:
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hehe cool.
What did he want to kill?
Tim Westman, but apparently he was joking.
Love your blog.Keep it up.God bless
What’s your take on the theology of the healing service? I’ve only studied (critiqued) a printed sermon at bible study once. Will be interesting to hear what its like!
Jesus did healings, we are supposed to become more like Jesus therefore we should do healings.
Thats logic.
Logic, yes, but sloppy logic. There are several powerful differences between us and Jesus that mean that we cannot always be like Jesus. For example, we cannot take our own sins away.
I’m curious as to the theology of the healing service, too.
I should probably read Narnia one day, too.
(P.S. Note new address—tu quoque has moved!
Clearly we cannot take our sins away as that is a attribute which we cannot emulate from Jesus. But healing is apparently an attribute we can have, as it has been suggested by the Bible through the disciples.
If we can do healing, are you suggesting that we should not do it because we should not do all that Jesus did. Or are you suggesting that we cannot do healing.
All I am saying is that not every Christian can heal others, which makes it an interesting doctrinal issue, because it means that there is the potential for the healing to become egotistically driven by the human component.
I don’t know what to think about healing. As I don’t personally know anyone whom God has chosen to use as a healer, I tend to pray for healing and trust that God’s purposes will work out.
Not everyone has equal talents, neither are all exactly the same parts of the body of Christ, some can heal, some cannot. Since we all have different talents there is the potential for our involvement in Church to be egotistically driven.
Why did you choose egotistically driven as a motive for someone to heal? have you seen someone exhibiting that quality before?
Random ramblings rock.
I should do more of them, then. Though, sometimes I worry about what comes out of my brain!
Hey that’s what makes it rock. Seeing uncensored and unabridged what’s in people’s heads.
Same here, if I ever let the all the stuff in my brain come out I don’t think anyone would talk with me again! I guess thats why we have self control.