| | i am reading eugene peterson. i never thought i would. i never thought i would enjoy it. i never thought i would be challenged. but i am.
there are parts of my evangelical identity that i hate, that i hate very much. my tendency to draw lines boldly in permanent marker and fixate on them. another is the thomas kincaide-max lucado syndrome that i find myself feeling warm and comfy in in spite of myself. yet i need to be careful not to jettison everything with one unreflective push of a button.
even in my academic pursuits, i believe the point of theology--the point of any interaction with christianity as a thing in itself (which is always a second order move)--is lived spirituality. the living following after Jesus in this very moment. and that's something that (some) evangelicals get right. like this series by eugene peterson.
so i'm trying to read the bible and live like Jesus. and trying to keep my vocabulary on the everyday level that i actually live.
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