Comments on: Spiritual Conversations: Understanding Culture pt. 1

By: Spiritual Conversations final part 5 – Velocity Culture

Spiritual Conversations final part 5 – Velocity Culture — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:32:31 +0000

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By: Spiritual Conversations part 3 – Velocity Culture

Spiritual Conversations part 3 – Velocity Culture — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:51:15 +0000

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By: Spiritual Conversations: Understanding Culture…part 2 – Velocity Culture

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:17:20 +0000

[...] read part one first THE REST OF THE STORY The Fall-Redemption story is part of the story, but it is really an abbreviated lo-cal excerpt of the fuller version. And here is the problem; to start the conversation with the Fall is to start talking about God’s Story at Genesis 3. Starting the conversation here and omitting the opening salvos of the first two chapters has locked us into having only one conversation about God: the 2nd person conversation. I would like to suggest when we start the conversation with a fall-redemption paradigm we only can talk about God in 2nd person. In other words the only way we can view God is as “Other” as “out there” as another person. While that is totally true about God our inability to see God from a couple other perspectives may be debilitating us. [...]

By: Lourens Grobbelaar

Lourens Grobbelaar — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:18:45 +0000

Ron, how can we make God a 1p conversation without making it all about us, and putting us in charge? This is not criticism, but an honest question.
Maybe the answer is in partnership rather than individualism, a team based perspective which includes both me and God as active partners. Scot McKnight placed an article a few months ago about sin and our active participation in changing it. For so long we have placed it all in God’s hands expecting to sit back, while both have a role to play. Is this not partly what we need more in the spirituality conversation also? Not me alone or God alone, but us, the -omen of Greek verbal vernacular.

By: article: spiritual conversations pt.1 – Velocity Culture

article: spiritual conversations pt.1 – Velocity Culture — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:16:16 +0000

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