We were supposed to see it in KC on November 6th. The a month earlier than his due date Silas was born on November 5th! That meant we had to give away our 4 tickets on the 3rd row. Bummer, but the DVD will work.

Cheers.

We don’t like to admit that how our brokenness affects our own perceptions of God and religion. It’s just too painful to consider that religion dominates most of Christianity…even though deep down we know it.

It’s one of the reasons Rob is such a lightning rod. He’s willing to talk about these things. If you didn’t see this presentation I would highly recommend getting this video.

(1) There’s a really interesting scripture that explains so much to me. It’s Colossians 1:21: “Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.” The interesting part is the “in your minds.” We were enemies of God, in our minds. I won’t say any more than that, except this: Selah!

(2) The comments about people being hesitant to go against 2000 years of orthodoxy struck me as a bit funny. The entire “hell” concept as we know it today was a pagan concept that was not taught in early church life for the first 300 years after Christ rose from the dead. I’m afraid we Western Christianity folks really do tend to think that theology as we know it is “the” truth and “the” original way it has always been known and taught. It’s pretty arrogant and very funny to me that we tend to think this way, but it’s very much a product of our culture, I think. We feel very safe and in control to think that “our” way of seeing and knowing things is the absolute truth and the way it’s always been. These folks in Martin Luther’s day would have set the man on fire, since he was then going against all that was “orthodox” back then. God bless the heretics who will challenge “orthodoxy,” I say!