Last week I was a counselor at Kids Kamp in Denton, MD. The campground does not have internet access. An unfortunate truth. Anyway, I was there for five days and missed the internet, even though I was able to update twitter and facebook using my blackberry curve. When you’re away from the internet you miss out on cool videos like this one. Take a look at the best 100 movie lines in 200 seconds.
What’s your favorite movie line of all time? Mine is from Tommy Boy: “That was awesome. Sorry about your car, man.”
Took 30 minutes of my day to hear and watch the story of Scott Harrison and charity: water. I hope you take the 30 minutes sometime this weekend to raise your awareness of this issue. Over 1 billion people on our planet need you to give up this time to hear this story.
Historian Mark Noll, formerly professor at Wheaton College and now at Notre Dame observes:
Some evangelicals have made opinion on liquor more important for fellowship and cooperation…than attitudes toward the person of Christ or the nature of salvation.
Thoughts?
Originally printed in Trouble Brewing, Leadership, Spring 2009.
I have spent the last few minutes re-reading the Newsweek article The End of Christian America. While a lot of things jumped out at me, it was a Finney quote that gripped (an unsettled) me the most:
In the middle of the 19th Century, the evangelist Charles Grandison Finney argued that “the great business of the church is to reform the world – to put away every kind of sin”; Christians, he said, are “bound to exert their influence to secure a legislation that is in accordance with the law of God.”
Really? I guess I don’t see it that way. I thought the great business of the church was to get people connected to Jesus…Go and make disciples. Right?
Finney’s approach, and the approach of the religious right, is behavorial in nature. Their mission is to go and reform (ususally through legislation) the BEHAVIOR of people. Make laws to get people to behave in ways that are consistent with morality that matches the “Christian” view of righteousness. The flaw with this approach is that if people are made to conform to a Christian moral code by law, the religious right has accomplished its goal of better behavior, but we have no new people connected to Jesus.
I think that the great business of the church is to lead people into a life of following Christ. From that place of radical relationship with the Son of God, lives are changed from the inside out. We have to stop leading with a call to/legislation for righteous behavior and start leading with an invitation to a life-changing relationship.
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Anyway, I was there for five days and missed the internet, even though I was able to update twitter and facebook using my blackberry curve. When you’re away from the internet you miss out on cool videos like this one. Take a look at the best 100 movie lines in 200 seconds.