Comments on: Unshackling the American Church: The Sacramental http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/unshackling-the-american-church-the-sacramental.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:27:48 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cerulean Sanctum » Unshackling the American Church: Cultivating Essential Beauty http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/unshackling-the-american-church-the-sacramental.html#comment-24289 Cerulean Sanctum » Unshackling the American Church: Cultivating Essential Beauty Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:15:28 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/unshackling-the-american-church-the-sacramental.html#comment-24289 [...] Unshackling the American Church: The Sacramental [...]

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]]> By: Brendt http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/unshackling-the-american-church-the-sacramental.html#comment-3852 Brendt Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:56:54 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/unshackling-the-american-church-the-sacramental.html#comment-3852 This whole post was ringing a bell. Then I got to your list toward the end, and figured out where that bell was coming from. When I interviewed Rich Mullins several years ago, he said: <blockquote>A lot of people think you can't be a Christian and an existentialist. I don't think you can be a Christian any other way.</blockquote> God has created so much, and we're missing it !! This whole post was ringing a bell. Then I got to your list toward the end, and figured out where that bell was coming from. When I interviewed Rich Mullins several years ago, he said:

A lot of people think you can’t be a Christian and an existentialist. I don’t think you can be a Christian any other way.

God has created so much, and we’re missing it !!

]]> By: Ray http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/unshackling-the-american-church-the-sacramental.html#comment-3678 Ray Sun, 28 May 2006 22:37:52 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/unshackling-the-american-church-the-sacramental.html#comment-3678 Dan, I don't know if you are still checking this post, but I wanted to thank you, as usual, this was a wonderful post, and left me thinking about many aspects of my life. As regards sermon prep -- one of the reasons that I still write my sermons out in long-hand while sitting at the kitchen table, overlooking my bird feeders, is because there is an organic feel that I can't get at a keyboard. I do eventually transfer them to the PC, but only after I have worked on them via a legal pad and pencil. Sounds silly, I know.... But there you have it... Dan, I don’t know if you are still checking this post, but I wanted to thank you, as usual, this was a wonderful post, and left me thinking about many aspects of my life.

As regards sermon prep — one of the reasons that I still write my sermons out in long-hand while sitting at the kitchen table, overlooking my bird feeders, is because there is an organic feel that I can’t get at a keyboard. I do eventually transfer them to the PC, but only after I have worked on them via a legal pad and pencil. Sounds silly, I know…. But there you have it…

]]> By: Mike Oliver http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/unshackling-the-american-church-the-sacramental.html#comment-3581 Mike Oliver Thu, 25 May 2006 15:40:48 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/unshackling-the-american-church-the-sacramental.html#comment-3581 Any Christian should know that God created us to be in a relationship with Him and paid a terrible price (more terrible than we can imagine) to give us the opportunity to have that relationship restored after we were seperated by sin. Coming to know Him later in life, I can clearly see that He also went to some trouble to show me my situation and my options. I wouldn't say that He forced me to opt for Him but the choices He presented were something on the order of would you like a nice piece of strawberry rhubarb pie (made one yesterday) or would you prefer a mud pie? One thought that makes this all the more amazing to me is that in addition to all that He suffered on my account and the trouble He went to that I might see the truth is that HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS GETTING. As with Peter on the beach being restored "Peter do you love (agape) me?" "Lord you know that I love(pheleo) you.", Agape was standing right in front of him and still beyond his understanding or grasp but not beyond his desire. May the desire to know Agape grow in each of us every day. Any Christian should know that God created us to be in a relationship with Him and paid a terrible price (more terrible than we can imagine) to give us the opportunity to have that relationship restored after we were seperated by sin. Coming to know Him later in life, I can clearly see that He also went to some trouble to show me my situation and my options. I wouldn’t say that He forced me to opt for Him but the choices He presented were something on the order of would you like a nice piece of strawberry rhubarb pie (made one yesterday) or would you prefer a mud pie? One thought that makes this all the more amazing to me is that in addition to all that He suffered on my account and the trouble He went to that I might see the truth is that HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS GETTING. As with Peter on the beach being restored “Peter do you love (agape) me?” “Lord you know that I love(pheleo) you.”, Agape was standing right in front of him and still beyond his understanding or grasp but not beyond his desire. May the desire to know Agape grow in each of us every day.

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