Perhaps if more of us talked about religion when we were out in the world . . .
Mostly I just try to talk about Jesus.
I’ve never met him, but I’d like to. I’m mostly stuck just talking about things like grace as they show up in ordinary people and things. (Or, of course, in a pinch, religion.)
I’d love to hear people talk about anything ‘church’ at church. They do a little in the classes, but in the halls and between classes… it’s all world. Motorcycles, sports, kids, jobs, money, …. anything but gospel.
I don’t talk at church. I just smile and nod.
My question always is: Do we talk about the gospel or the church?
The first time I argued with my dad about whether the song “Imagine” was satanic or not (apparently this was a fairly common, er, meme in the bygone days of paranoia about rock music), it occurred to me that religion was a decidedly worldly enterprise, necessary but worldly, a means to more dignified, enduring (but still material) ends. Its purpose, of course, is to bring about a perfected world in which there is no religion.
Perhaps if more of us talked about religion when we were out in the world . . .
Mostly I just try to talk about Jesus.
I’ve never met him, but I’d like to. I’m mostly stuck just talking about things like grace as they show up in ordinary people and things. (Or, of course, in a pinch, religion.)
I’d love to hear people talk about anything ‘church’ at church. They do a little in the classes, but in the halls and between classes… it’s all world. Motorcycles, sports, kids, jobs, money, …. anything but gospel.
I don’t talk at church. I just smile and nod.
My question always is: Do we talk about the gospel or the church?
The first time I argued with my dad about whether the song “Imagine” was satanic or not (apparently this was a fairly common, er, meme in the bygone days of paranoia about rock music), it occurred to me that religion was a decidedly worldly enterprise, necessary but worldly, a means to more dignified, enduring (but still material) ends. Its purpose, of course, is to bring about a perfected world in which there is no religion.
@Jax – so kids fall under ‘world’?