It's getting dusty in here
Ok, I'm going to do better about posting more often....for realz, yo.
I've got a lot I've been wanting to blog, but I just haven't had much time what with this career change and moving across the country and all. I did get our cars registered in MS today. That was exciting. I figured since it was the last day to legally do it before I had to pay a fine of $250 per car, it would be a good idea to get it done.
Nancy Grace is so offensive. She's always been offensive to me. She yells at the TV camera and she is rude to her guests. This last week though, her offensiveness hit home. She accused the Church of Christ of being a cult. She said we claim that the CofC has sole knowledge of the truth and sole hope of heaven, and she went even further to say that our cultish, women-opressing ways likely contributed to Mary Winkler shooting her husband.
One guest, a SBC Pastor, didn't have our back, like a brother in Christ should. He didn't necessarily encourage Nancy's ideas, but he didn't correct her either. In fact he somewhat condemingly condemned us for being condemning. Ouch. Perhaps he isn't acquainted with the prevailing attitudes in today's Stone-Campbell movement. The Disciples of Christ, the Christian Church, and the Church of Christ are more and more striving for unity and acceptance among different denominations of Jesus followers. I pray this fellow will be blessed with a new perspective on the current CofC.
Then when Nancy sought out the insider opinion of Rubel Shelly, a prominent minister within the CofC, she was incredibly rude to him and continually cut him off without letting him answer her questions.
There has been a lot of discussion on these events in the CofC blogging community. I won't go into it a great deal, except to say that it hurt my heart that the CofC was painted in this light. Like all denominations, the CofC has a wide variety of practices and thoughts from congregation to congregation.
Unfortunately there are some congregations within the CofC that claim they have sole knowledge of the truth and do have a misunderstanding of women's roles within the church. That doesn't mean we are a cult. That means like all denominations, we have people in our tribe that have misunderstandings. I hope we can teach them to move away from their legalistic ways and show them that God's plan for salvation isn't dependent on where you attend church.
Even more appalling, I know Nancy Grace has probably gotten a lot of rude email from CofC members this week. Hopefully this won't serve to confirm her opinion of us. Hopefully enough people have written her in a positive manner to inform her of what our tribe is really like.
In other news, Dixie and Jaylie are at a ladies retreat this weekend. It's just the boys in the house. We had a good burping session at the table during supper. Fear not, I prefaced it with, "this is something you don't do when girls are around".
Just so you know, I won the burping contest. My boys have a long way to go to catch me. Gotta love them though. They try hard.
I've got some other news, but I'll share it in the future. This entry is exceedingly long.
I've got a lot I've been wanting to blog, but I just haven't had much time what with this career change and moving across the country and all. I did get our cars registered in MS today. That was exciting. I figured since it was the last day to legally do it before I had to pay a fine of $250 per car, it would be a good idea to get it done.
Nancy Grace is so offensive. She's always been offensive to me. She yells at the TV camera and she is rude to her guests. This last week though, her offensiveness hit home. She accused the Church of Christ of being a cult. She said we claim that the CofC has sole knowledge of the truth and sole hope of heaven, and she went even further to say that our cultish, women-opressing ways likely contributed to Mary Winkler shooting her husband.
One guest, a SBC Pastor, didn't have our back, like a brother in Christ should. He didn't necessarily encourage Nancy's ideas, but he didn't correct her either. In fact he somewhat condemingly condemned us for being condemning. Ouch. Perhaps he isn't acquainted with the prevailing attitudes in today's Stone-Campbell movement. The Disciples of Christ, the Christian Church, and the Church of Christ are more and more striving for unity and acceptance among different denominations of Jesus followers. I pray this fellow will be blessed with a new perspective on the current CofC.
Then when Nancy sought out the insider opinion of Rubel Shelly, a prominent minister within the CofC, she was incredibly rude to him and continually cut him off without letting him answer her questions.
There has been a lot of discussion on these events in the CofC blogging community. I won't go into it a great deal, except to say that it hurt my heart that the CofC was painted in this light. Like all denominations, the CofC has a wide variety of practices and thoughts from congregation to congregation.
Unfortunately there are some congregations within the CofC that claim they have sole knowledge of the truth and do have a misunderstanding of women's roles within the church. That doesn't mean we are a cult. That means like all denominations, we have people in our tribe that have misunderstandings. I hope we can teach them to move away from their legalistic ways and show them that God's plan for salvation isn't dependent on where you attend church.
Even more appalling, I know Nancy Grace has probably gotten a lot of rude email from CofC members this week. Hopefully this won't serve to confirm her opinion of us. Hopefully enough people have written her in a positive manner to inform her of what our tribe is really like.
In other news, Dixie and Jaylie are at a ladies retreat this weekend. It's just the boys in the house. We had a good burping session at the table during supper. Fear not, I prefaced it with, "this is something you don't do when girls are around".
Just so you know, I won the burping contest. My boys have a long way to go to catch me. Gotta love them though. They try hard.
I've got some other news, but I'll share it in the future. This entry is exceedingly long.
posted by Eric Livingston at
3/31/2006
1 Comments:
It's sad that the way ACU treated the SoulForce group was overshadowed by the discussion about Winklers/CofC. There didn't seem to be much cultish activity from that university in the way it welcomed a group that's faced some awful experiences.
Glad you're back.
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