My bee may have flown…
Huh I hear you cry from the blog title - all will be explained
Where am I? I hear you think as you pick yourself up from the floor having fainted, Mark’s blogged again!
So, my bee may have flown…from my bonnet
Yesterday in CROPS I borrowed Decca’s ‘Audacious Revolution’ book expecting to be annoyed by dodgy theology and lots of jargon words which sounds good yet make no sense, but having read the whole book today I’m quite impressed, the theology seems to be pretty spot on, some of it matching what I’ve been taught on my course so far.
The only bit I’d complain about is the complete overuse of the word Audacious, they do give a dictionary meaning but I still find it a bit like jargon but I got what they were trying to say.
The other bit which got me thinking was a bit when they talk about how boring churches might as well not bother because Jesus was (to use the buzz word) Audacious. To an extent I see where they are coming from, they talk about how when you’re excited about something it sorta bursts out of you and that Jesus should be like that and therefore we should all be jumping etc! They also talk about how when people were healed they ‘Jumped praising God’ which depending on your translation of the bible but it does give a good explanation to people like me who usually fail to see why we have to jump, at least now I know where they’re coming from, I don’t agree that you have to jump, I believe that true worship comes from the heart and it’s where your heart is at when you worship, but I think expression is important in worship because it publically shows that you love God, yes you could pretend to be into it but not be inside but that’s a problem between you and God, I think expressive worship is an important part when we praise God through song, after all everything we do should be as worship to God (remember worship isn’t just singing it’s way of life), and Romans talks about faith being about actions as well as words so perhaps that’s where action in worship fits in?
Anyway, at some point expect a proper worship thought, verse etc blog!
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Mark is a 22 year old youth worker, currently working for Park Road Baptist Church in Peterborough. Mark is also currently in his final year of the Oasis Youth Work & Ministry Degree.
don’t wanna be cynical, but you have to remember that New LAbour said a lot of things that were wonderful on paper but didn’t ork out or were surprseed under alterier or insincere motives. Same can be said for Father Lenin, Mao, Hitler (nearly), 1950s tobacco reports, etc.
If you see that a church is writing lovelly things, but the pratise and look of the church are contrary to that, then that doens’t mean necessaril that you have the wrong end of the stick.
but simislerly, don’t get too proud and blind yourself.
I spose there’s a balance between pacifism and pessimism
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