Comments on: Out in the Country http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/01/out-in-country.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:17:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: caitriana http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/01/out-in-country.html#comment-1597 caitriana Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:56:00 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=183#comment-1597 This is the first time I've commented here, but just had to say how true this is... I grew up in one of the remoter parts of Scotland but had to leave for university & work. I love being in the city, but what frightens me sometimes is that <I>I forget what it's like outside - what God's creation is like</I>. On the rare occasions I get out of the city or head home for a holiday, it's like drinking deep draughts of cold water, having just realised you've come out of the desert. Like �trang�re said though, sometimes we do have to be missionaries in the urban jungle! This is the first time I’ve commented here, but just had to say how true this is… I grew up in one of the remoter parts of Scotland but had to leave for university & work. I love being in the city, but what frightens me sometimes is that I forget what it’s like outside - what God’s creation is like. On the rare occasions I get out of the city or head home for a holiday, it’s like drinking deep draughts of cold water, having just realised you’ve come out of the desert.

Like �trang�re said though, sometimes we do have to be missionaries in the urban jungle!

]]> By: �trang�re http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/01/out-in-country.html#comment-1596 �trang�re Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:13:00 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=183#comment-1596 I love the country - I feel I have to flee the city in which I'm living at least once a fortnight for the sake of my (mental) health! But if all the Christians flee the cities to live 'closer to God' in the country, erm... wouldn't be great for the millions living in cities. It could be a sacrifice - you know, like being a missionary in a jungle, you now get to be a missionary in an urban jungle. Just a thought. I love the country - I feel I have to flee the city in which I’m living at least once a fortnight for the sake of my (mental) health! But if all the Christians flee the cities to live ‘closer to God’ in the country, erm… wouldn’t be great for the millions living in cities. It could be a sacrifice - you know, like being a missionary in a jungle, you now get to be a missionary in an urban jungle. Just a thought.

]]> By: Dan Edelen http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/01/out-in-country.html#comment-1595 Dan Edelen Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:01:00 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=183#comment-1595 Lee Anne, When I drive through the US, the one thing that strikes me more than anything is that it's largely uninhabited. There's so much open space here it's amazing. The world is largely unpopulated. If you gave every person on the planet a 20' x 20' room to live in, restricting those rooms to a single level, the amount of surface space taken would be less than an area the size of the state of Michigan. We only think we're running out of space because we tend to pack people into certain areas. But even out by me there are huge tracts of land with no one living on them. We could spread out more if we wanted to and not run out of elbow room. There's literally a quarter million square feet per person of usable land mass in the world. Since families tend not to split up, the amount per family is even greater. Just something to think about. Lee Anne,

When I drive through the US, the one thing that strikes me more than anything is that it’s largely uninhabited. There’s so much open space here it’s amazing.

The world is largely unpopulated. If you gave every person on the planet a 20′ x 20′ room to live in, restricting those rooms to a single level, the amount of surface space taken would be less than an area the size of the state of Michigan. We only think we’re running out of space because we tend to pack people into certain areas. But even out by me there are huge tracts of land with no one living on them.

We could spread out more if we wanted to and not run out of elbow room. There’s literally a quarter million square feet per person of usable land mass in the world. Since families tend not to split up, the amount per family is even greater.

Just something to think about.

]]> By: blind beggar http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/01/out-in-country.html#comment-1594 blind beggar Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:45:00 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=183#comment-1594 "We've lost our sense of wonder in the Church. We've packed the Lord and His glorious Creation away in one of Bloomingdale's Little Brown Bags and let our imaginations be filled with the perishing for no other reason than because we can." What a wonderful quote! Do you suppose that our man made urban environment that has eliminated his Creation from declaring the glory of God and proclaiming his handiwork lends to the overall ignorance of God we see today? (This is a rhetorical question as I ponder out loud.) We live in an urban environment, but here in Portland, Oregon we value open untouched space. So we I can walk just 10 feet to a wetlands that is full of God�s wonder. “We’ve lost our sense of wonder in the Church. We’ve packed the Lord and His glorious Creation away in one of Bloomingdale’s Little Brown Bags and let our imaginations be filled with the perishing for no other reason than because we can.”

What a wonderful quote!

Do you suppose that our man made urban environment that has eliminated his Creation from declaring the glory of God and proclaiming his handiwork lends to the overall ignorance of God we see today? (This is a rhetorical question as I ponder out loud.)

We live in an urban environment, but here in Portland, Oregon we value open untouched space. So we I can walk just 10 feet to a wetlands that is full of God�s wonder.

]]> By: Lee Anne http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/01/out-in-country.html#comment-1593 Lee Anne Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:39:00 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=183#comment-1593 The problem is, when so many folks move out to the country, it ceases to be country and becomes just as bad as the urban/suburban areas they were fleeing. Malls, roads, etc. crop up to serve the needs of the people. The problem is, when so many folks move out to the country, it ceases to be country and becomes just as bad as the urban/suburban areas they were fleeing. Malls, roads, etc. crop up to serve the needs of the people.

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