recklessly dreaming

I know that my blogging frequency has slowed. And nope its not because of ratchet and clank: up your aresnal (I am getting to play it today for the first time since tues).

Wednesday it happened. I spoke on Wed - this next week I will be meeting with several students that want to talk about it. It is interesting where we draw our lines about what is and isnt allowed (both in the church and iin other areas - say morality, civil actions, etc). I spoke the 2nd of 2 weeks on the death and resurrection of Christ. I also worked with our student worship planners/leaders to tell the same story with the environment and the songs, and scriptures.

As people talked to me afterwards, I heard many comments (both to me and others) along the lines of ” that was good,” ” i enjoyed it” - Is that what our worship times are really about? being good? well done? enjoyable?

That was not our intent, but it was the conditioned response given. How has the consumer mentality been created? How can we redirect it. My students and I are going to be working on ways to get students seeing these large gathering times as times of spiritual formation rather than consumer mentality.

… hummm back to r&c

Trav - the 2nd kimball book (emerging worship) is better than the first -

Amanda,

I caved. I bought it. In a few moments I will be playing it.

Oh if only you were here too.

-Jen

I just finished watching Dogma (yes I know its been out for years but hey….) and I could write a lengthy post on it. However, many of you have already seen it so here is something that I saw as the credits were wrapping up. (and because of lovely DVD technology I can pause the DVD with out those funny little lines you get with a vcr)

“DOGMA” os the culmination of a lifetime’s worth of disparate spiritual and satirical influences, which owes a debt to sunday storytellers and word-smiths these authors and instigators I humbly thank in no particular order …..

Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, Saint Luke, Saint John, Sam Kinison, Ceogre Catlin, Elaine Pagels, John Milton, Cervantes, martin Scorsese, Alan Moore, Thomas Moore, Spike Lee, Douglas Adams, Robert Bolt, Quentin Tarantino, Nikos Kazantzakis, Denys Arcand, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Matt Wagner, Howard, Robin, Fred, Gary, and Everyone at the Joward Stern Show, and Sister Theresa from 8th grade.