Living life with steps of faith

http://up-rooted.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-is-emerging-church.html#links Just wanted to put a link to this description of the emerging church. I find it helpful. It describes three different branches. Although, it doesn't explain the difference between the movement of the emerging church and the organized Emergent Church.

The past week has been a time of reflection and revelation. In my personal journal today, I wrote: "I know what I've realized in the past day or two." and then continued: I came to recognize that volume two of my life may not be so different and segmented from volume one as I had thought. Perhaps, the volumes of my life, or at least these two, are more like the "Back to the Future" movie trilogy. Similar characters with similar personalities and similar themes, but different time periods. Thus, I remain me, fully intact, but better acquainted with myself and confirmed with my call to reach the lost, the broken, the hurting, and the spiritually hungry and to be a disciple model for the church to follow.

2 Random Thoughts (or at least somewhat random): 1. Couldn't the Q Source be God? 2. Don't sleep with your cell phone, unless you have the time to search for it in the morning.

"May our homes be filled with dancing May our streets be filled with joy May injustice bow to Jesus [I love that line] As the people turn and pray [this one too] From the mountain to the vally [I like to imagine this - people from around the world, every walk of life] Hear our praises rise to You From the heavens to the nations Hear the singing fill the air May our light shine in the darkness As we walk before the cross May Your glory fill the whole earth [Amen] As the water over sea Hallelujah Hallelujah" From the song "Hear Our Praises" by Reuben Morgan published by Hillsong Publishing and Integrity's Hosanna! Music It is nice sometimes to take a step back, and read the lyrics of a song as poetry.

Please pray that God will send someone that will be my prayer partner - and that I will be able to recognize that person is who God sent!

"it was the intellectual conviction that only in terms of the Christian view of things could I make sense out of the social history in which we live and the ethical decisions we humans have to make." - Langdon Gilkey Santung Compound , p. 73 (Harper and Row, New York, c. 1966) I am currently reading Langdon Gilkey's Shantung Compound . In my reading, I was struck by how Gilkey describes his acceptance, as a young adult, of the Christian religion. His experience and decision to choose Christianity based upon his interest in what the religious faith stands for and represents stands in contrast to my experience of Christianity as a religion that results from a relationship with Jesus Christ. His description describes so aptly the religious faith of some of my classmates that I am curious to see how his understanding of Christian identity changes (within this cultural study/biography) and how the class discussions about Gilkey's faith will wander and progress. Based up...

It has been an interesting break and one I think I will remember for some time. I spent the first five days in Washington D.C. with a man who is very special to me. He surprised me with a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia, which fulfilled a dream of mine. Since my first introduction to the American Girl book series in elementary school and my later introduction to their pre-teen targeted magazine, I've desired to visit this old town. We had a fantastic time. The highlights of which were our evenings in the old pub/restaurant, dancing together at a Christmas ball, listening to the elegant sounds of the crystal harmonica, and our conversations as we wandered the streets. My love for my boyfriend continues to grow, and he constantly amazes and impresses me in new ways. After our trip to Williamsburg and some time in the capital area, I interviewed for my summer Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) placement. In one of the interviews, my future supervisor shared with me some research he is d...