Comments on: Relevant?! http://tenclay.org/blog/2005/07/21/relevant/ Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:55:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Stacey http://tenclay.org/blog/2005/07/21/relevant/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Stacey Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:23:00 +0000 http://tenclay.org/blog/2005/07/21/relevant/#comment-2 NO!! No theocentrism! We must do exactly what the popular culture does, or church will have no value!!! <BR/><BR/>The problem here is, I think, a control issue. We don't want to wait around for God to define relevance or shape the life of the church. We don't want to have our assumptions challenged or our ideas about church changed. We want results, the kind of results we expect, and we want them NOW. <BR/><BR/>Hey, I think I have the next section of my sermon, on which I was stuck. I'm talking about God's covenant with Abram, and how Abram "believed the Lord," even though the promise of offspring wasn't fulfilled until 25 years after God first made it. NO!! No theocentrism! We must do exactly what the popular culture does, or church will have no value!!!

The problem here is, I think, a control issue. We don’t want to wait around for God to define relevance or shape the life of the church. We don’t want to have our assumptions challenged or our ideas about church changed. We want results, the kind of results we expect, and we want them NOW.

Hey, I think I have the next section of my sermon, on which I was stuck. I’m talking about God’s covenant with Abram, and how Abram “believed the Lord,” even though the promise of offspring wasn’t fulfilled until 25 years after God first made it.

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