| Once upon a time, this blog was alive and growing, it was being used. Then I decided to start my own webpage. I blog on there now almost always, so in about a week I am closing this one up for good. I will be deleting my xanga so please send yourselves over to:
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See ya there!
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| After the new year, I will no longer be posting on here. I'll be posting at
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| There's a new post up at the newly redesigned MartimusPrime.com. I'd appreciate it if you went there, read it, and then weighed in on what you think.
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| Is it ok to be restless? I feel like a have energy pent up inside me and keeping it in is making me weary. It's not really energy to get out and do something, but rather energy to change something that to me seems unchangeable at this point.
This unchangeable thing that I'm talking about is the church. Not a particular church, but the church in general. It's reached the point, to me, where we have forgotten why churches started in the first place and our off-the-rails desires and complaints for the organization are going to drive it into the ground. Let me say this, because I want to get it out there: we can't keep doing church like we did in the 1960's and expect it to survive for any length of time. My main charge against the church as a whole is that we have forgotten to keep up with the rapid change of society. We have cried out that we are in the world and not of it, but in doing that we have ignored the fact that technology, language, and many other things are advancing past the comprehension of the church.
But where we really get off the tracks is when we start to believe that church is about us. We won't say it's about us, oh no, but rather we will prove it is about us by our actions, which show us arguing about the purpose of rooms, fighting over the color of the carpet, withholding tithe money because we don't like something the minister is doing, or many other selfish and downright sinful attitudes. We forget that the purpose of the church, the body of Christ, is two fold: to bring honor and glory to God, and to serve and love the world the way that Jesus does. Some Christians I meet have an seeming hatred for our world, speaking of it in contempt. And yes, there are things we should have contempt for. But, we can't hope to reach the new generations of would-be believers unless we are willing to dismount from our pedestals of comfortable church routine and wade deep into the waters of a shifting culture. Call it emerging, call it post-modern, call it whatever you want, but as the world continues to shun Christ-followers and the church slowly continues to shrivel, we need to do what we can to stop the hemorrhaging and enact change for the good of us all. Doesn't matter what it's called, just do it.
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