Comments for Holiness Reeducation

Comment on The Temptations of Celebrity by maggiemraz

maggiemraz — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:42:02 +0000

good news…this is not beyond redemption. there is hope for us all! yay.

Comment on The Temptations of Celebrity by Todd

Todd — Wed, 30 May 2012 12:31:23 +0000

I am shamed to admit I feel this more often than I would like.

Comment on Strangest Stories in the Bible by Steven

Steven — Mon, 28 May 2012 01:57:25 +0000

lol joesel every chapter was added my men my friend, thats why you can read it, how can you honestly read this a still confide your faith in christianity, i think every single one of the moral commandments found in the bible were broken here and yet you call them simply strange but true, truly ridiculous

Comment on Rethinking Preaching by Jacqui Hausoul

Jacqui Hausoul — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:31:54 +0000

This is a lot to think about. Very, very interesting. A “Hmmmmmmmmm” welled up in me when I read your blog. I think this would be very good. I also think it might be a difficult thing to get people to do. We are very set in our ways and like to come to church and be lectured. But I think that whatever God is telling us to do, we should do. We, in the congregation, should become more involved. Hmmm!

Comment on The Temptations of Celebrity by jacqui h

jacqui h — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:30:01 +0000

So true. I pray that the church in America stops being Idol driven and comes back to her first love.

Comment on The Temptations of Celebrity by Todd

Todd — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:59:16 +0000

“I wish that when my friends are recognized for their work and asked to write and speak at conferences it didn’t make a mostly dormant part of my soul light up with a bit of jealousy.” This! A hundred times THIS!

Comment on Rethinking Preaching by maggiemraz

maggiemraz — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:12:14 +0000

Yet there is something VERY specific about a role of a called preacher that is lost in the church today. Preachers are not all pastors. 5 fold is deeper/broader than we allow in the church, I see. Also, leaders must LISTEN to God and the congregation before opening their mouths. We talk too much. Preaching is inspired speech. People moved to say the things on God’s heart. Preaching is prophetic. It ought look a bit more other worldly than it often looks today. People are hungry for preaching…good, empowered, kingdom, world changing preaching that convicts the hearts of people and compels a different way of living.

Comment on Rethinking Preaching by Greg

Greg — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:29:15 +0000

Yeah there is a lot of truth to that, but there is this nagging suspicion in my life that beyond subtext there should be a much larger place for the voice of the rest of the church to be heard. We practice sharing testimony and story a lot as a church. We use video interviews, live interviews, stories, and the incorporation of others stories into my sermons as a discipline. That is one way in which there voices are heard and it is great. But I am just stuck with this idea that there is something more, that God’s calling to preach and participate in proclamation isn’t elder specific if that makes sense.

Comment on Rethinking Preaching by maggiemraz

maggiemraz — Thu, 24 May 2012 02:23:20 +0000

Good stuff, Shay!

Comment on Rethinking Preaching by Shay

Shay — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:53:23 +0000

I just finished reading M. Craig Barnes’ book “The Pastor as Minor Poet”. It was good. One of the things he harps on that might be helpful is that the pastor’s job, as poet, is to look for the subtext in the bible an in the lives of the congregants and to put the two together. If you are involved in the other aspects of pastorting: hospital visits, counseling, bible studies, meetings, just hanging out with the people, then you are allowing the congregation to shape your sermon and have an input. Their joys and sorrows, successes and failures, fears and pride sit with you as you sit to write. I think one of the main reason why your attempts to reach out to the congregation to help you shape your sermons has failed is that most people are not called or equipped by God nor trained by seminary to do that work. It doesn’t make that role better or higher than the many roles laity play in the church, it’s just a different task.