This is me last time I checked
If you don’t know me, well this will give you insight into the bizarre, creative, inspired, wandering, often unfocused, easily distracted and thirsting for knowledge reality that is my mind, my heart and my soul. My name is Greg and I am a pilgrim, a pastor, sometimes a prophet, and always a disciple.
I think that my life is the life of a Spiritual DJ. I am trying to help people find the God given soundtrack of their lives. I love the Redskins like I love chili on my hot dog. I think that instant potatoes are sinful. I think that the smartest people I know are always the most humble. So if you are talking about how smart you are you are an idiot. I like walking on the beach, but if you are walking on the sloping part, it is kind of annoying. I think that Christopher Walken is the coolest/weirdest guy ever. I like to mock things, but I am working on it. I think I am really funny. I am actually laughing right now just thinking about how funny I think I am. I think Saturday Night Live should just give up the ghost. I prefer margarine. I like to dance in ways you don’t associate with a pastor. Eating sausage often gives me heartburn. I think Joe Gibbs is the greatest coach of any sport ever. I think that Larry Bird was better than Magic Johnson on a basketball court. I think that Magic Johnson is a much better business man. I don’t like scallions, please leave them off my soup. Don’t ever give me a Pepsi if I order a Coke, apologize for not serving Coke then run to the corner store and buy one for me. Don’t ever eat a hand fool of crushed red pepper on a dare in high school, especially right before a band concert, trust me. I hate sleeping naked. I hate sleeping in a t-shirt. I really love to sleep. I love food. I especially love bad food. If there is some sort of prepared food that involves dough or pastry and it is filled with meats and cheeses and threatens to shoot hot grease down your throat if you bite into it too fast, I love it. I could eat a Twinkie at three times a day and probably not get tired of them. But I don’t. I refuse to acknowledge that they made Godfather 3, Caddyshack 2, Highlander 2, Rocky 5, or anything starring Tobey Maguirre. I am organic. I hate that fact that people don’t realize that being organic just means you are carbon based. It doesn’t mean that it is healthy or chemical free, just carbon based. Take a chemistry course. I like manual labor. I like to think I am much handier around the house than I am. I love guacamole. I think the Garden of Eden was filled with Avocados. I believe in the inerrancy of scripture and yet I am in no way a Fundamentalist. Ironically I believe that most paradoxes don’t exist. (Think about that for a minute) I believe Mic Jagger and Steven Tyler are the same person or they just share their lips. Has anyone ever seen them in the same place at the same time? The greatest video game ever is James Bond Golden Eye for the N64, it changed the world. Neil Young is the greatest Canadian ever. I love Neil Young. A lot of Neil Young’s music is terrible. I believe without Bono the Emerging Church wouldn’t exist. I am not sure the Emerging Church will exist in 10 years. I believe that many wonderful Christians are the new Amish, randomly choosing a way of life that they like and sticking with it even though society left them behind a long time ago. I believe in holiness. I believe God has called us to be holy. I believe we must strive to be holy. I don’t believe we can ever be holy, aside from an act of God. I don’t think I have any idea what holiness really is. Now you know why I am writing this blog.
You are a dreamer, a visionary, and a straight up idea person. You are very creative.
Hey bro!
Just stumbled upon your blog. Love it. I’m going to add a link to yours on mine which is http://www.epicaugusta.typepad.com. Feel free to link me as well if you like.
I’ll visit you often! Good stuff.
Well…I’ve taken the plunge and started one of these new-fangled blog things. check it out if your painfully bored!
we would like to know if you are still making sell you Bar B Que sauce?
1. The link for your profile off of Emergent Nazarenes (http://www.blogger.com/profile/4409350) refers to a page where you’re attempting to do emergent worship (www.evolutionworship.com) which no longer exists.
2. The irony in your profile here must confuse the crud out of anybody who isn’t paying attention. Is it a purposeful filter?
3. I noticed that the last major post you made under the Nazarene header (back in 2006) turned into an enormous “Hey Mr. Cheney, is that a shotgun or…” affair. As all of these things seem to do, eventually. Most of the stuff I’ve looked at on the Emergent Nazarene page seems to run into the same effect. I can’t really quantify that quality yet, but there’s an emotion behind it, isn’t there, sort of a defensive, fearful attacking thing which is entirely against the nature of Christ, but which there’s no way to communicate to the person experiencing it.
4. Having “grown up” on bbs culture, it’s very weird being in a blog atmosphere where replies can take forever or be non-existent. Due to living in Arkansas, I wind up looking for community online, but the majority of informed views I find are other Pastors (most of my friends locally are pastors, and while they’re wonderful folks, they tend to be extremely time limited, as I expect you are yourself.) How does one find a non-pastoral community of informed emergent believers who like to talk?
Todd, thanks for noticing the change in my profile that blogger didn’t reflect. I have updated it.
I think that you have over simplified the nature of some of the Emergent Nazarene posts, there are very different voices being reflected. I think my own voice has changed quite a bit in the past 2 years as I have blogged. I agree that hypercritical attacking blogs don’t serve the kingdom much.
As far as online communities that are full of lots of non-pastors, I would check out The Ooze which has some great discussions happening. Locally, it is hard, depending especially on where you are located. Where in Arkansas are you? My wife is from Fayetteville.
Thanks for stopping by
Hrm. What do you mean when you say that “I think that you have over simplified the nature of some of the Emergent Nazarene posts”? Please keep in mind, I haven’t read the entire site, just stuff that’s linked from the initial page. Also, feel free to respond to my email if you prefer, rather than cluttering your comment section.
My observation is less that the arguments being made are simple, so much as that there are people with a post-modern/emergent view attempting to converse with people with an extremely modernistic view, and in many cases, the people speaking from a modernistic view literally don’t hear the same things being said as the emergent members, which creates argument. So it’s not being hypercritical, so much as evidencing a semantic breakdown.
Please let me know how to contact you. It would be nice if there were an email address or form here, but I can’t find one.
Thanks!
Karen
Bird was better, only Yankees drink Pepsi, and you forgot to mention to never stall an uck in the middle of a busy intersection on 193 – unless someone with a big Cadillac is behind you.