Comments on: Jumping from Bridges http://ceruleansanctum.com/2009/09/jumping-from-bridges.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Tue, 22 May 2012 03:53:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Best of Cerulean Sanctum 2009 | Cerulean Sanctumhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2009/09/jumping-from-bridges.html#comment-47218 Best of Cerulean Sanctum 2009 | Cerulean Sanctum Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:06:39 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=1870#comment-47218 [...] the saints. If you read only one post, check out “What We Must Expect…and When.”Jumping from BridgesA church that preaches safety first accomplishes little for the Kingdom.The Finger in the MirrorAll [...] [...] the saints. If you read only one post, check out “What We Must Expect…and When.”Jumping from BridgesA church that preaches safety first accomplishes little for the Kingdom.The Finger in the MirrorAll [...]

]]> By: slwhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2009/09/jumping-from-bridges.html#comment-45820 slw Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:04:17 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=1870#comment-45820 Dan, A very good response, your points are well-taken. Even if our living in not communal it should be dead to self. Dan,
A very good response, your points are well-taken. Even if our living in not communal it should be dead to self.

]]> By: Natehttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2009/09/jumping-from-bridges.html#comment-45818 Nate Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:08:20 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=1870#comment-45818 The fact that people need to qualify the bejeezus out of the Acts 2 scenario(btw, I have never heard anyone suggest that sharing possessions in this way is required Biblically...just that we shouldn't do it cause it's communist or something) is a testimony to people's fear and to their love of possessions. the same goes for the rich young man text, in which rank terror of losing their stuff drives people to immediately say things like "now, now, don't go thinking Jesus meant this literally..." I'm kind of tired of it, honestly. Living communally is not that hard, people. It really isn't. Nor is it some wild, barbaric, legalism-prone thing that threatens to bring USofA and all it stands for under Soviet domination. Nor is it contrary to the Bible. Nor is it commnaded in the Bible. However, considering your possessions and your life and all that you have under the sun to be worthless next to knowing Jesus is thoroughly Biblical. People whose priorities reflect that don't find it all that big of a leap to introduce *some* kind of shared living scenario into their lives, either to free up resources to do Jesus-y things or to plain ol' make life easier. After all, we're not necessarily designed to be constantly functioning on all cylinders merely to buy and maintain a bunch of individually owned stuff. Some of us are gettin' tired, here! The fact that people need to qualify the bejeezus out of the Acts 2 scenario(btw, I have never heard anyone suggest that sharing possessions in this way is required Biblically…just that we shouldn’t do it cause it’s communist or something) is a testimony to people’s fear and to their love of possessions. the same goes for the rich young man text, in which rank terror of losing their stuff drives people to immediately say things like “now, now, don’t go thinking Jesus meant this literally…”

I’m kind of tired of it, honestly.

Living communally is not that hard, people. It really isn’t. Nor is it some wild, barbaric, legalism-prone thing that threatens to bring USofA and all it stands for under Soviet domination. Nor is it contrary to the Bible. Nor is it commnaded in the Bible. However, considering your possessions and your life and all that you have under the sun to be worthless next to knowing Jesus is thoroughly Biblical. People whose priorities reflect that don’t find it all that big of a leap to introduce *some* kind of shared living scenario into their lives, either to free up resources to do Jesus-y things or to plain ol’ make life easier.

After all, we’re not necessarily designed to be constantly functioning on all cylinders merely to buy and maintain a bunch of individually owned stuff. Some of us are gettin’ tired, here!

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