tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290499942011-11-27T20:02:25.373-05:00Every day we walk the wire between the World and our Faith. Sometimes we fall. Sometimes we feel a steadying hand.JLKnoreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29049994.post-35332684781475961282008-01-24T10:17:00.000-05:002008-01-24T10:22:06.795-05:00

Do you have to go to church to love God? I don’t think so.Do you have to go to church to be a Christian? I don’t’ believe so.Is it a good idea to gather with other Christians regularly? Sure. Does it have to be in a church? Absolutely not.My experience is that church became a distraction, it drew my focus from the important and to the petty.I stopped going to church. I’m not alone.During the past

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During weekday mornings I listen to a Hollister, CA based radio station via iTunes. It’s a noncommercial contemporary Christian station called Air1 that conducts pledge drives twice each year. Their company president was just on asking for donations and said something that really struck a chord.It’s not necessarily a profound Christian statement, although I can see it’s relevance in a path

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It's Sunday morning and I’m struggling with church. It’s just my church perhaps but many churches may have this same problem.I could be considered one of the core members, not a deacon or overt leader although I have been heavily involved in church activities over the year. But I find myself moving further away. The massages say nothing to me, the music is better than it has been for a while but

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Could it be that people do not pursue God more aggressively because they have no reference of how great being in his presence really is?Can you imagine what it would be like to walk with Jesus? Literally walk down your street with him? Can you imagine having him stay in your home? Eat at your table? Talk with him in the flesh face to face, see him heal a life long paraplegic or raise your child

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I continue to wonder about the spirit of God and receiving the Spirit and being Spirit filled. I really don’t know that that means. I have assumed that that meant that I had not, was not, and would be at some point. I also believe that it does not preclude me from being a Christian. But perhaps there is another answer.Often we own great expectations of how something is going to be. Then when the

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There's $52.84 in the bank account and $873.26 in bills that are due in a few days. Payday is over a week away.Ah, the wire.…but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.Well I must have a lot of character, or perhaps I don’t and that’s why all this crap that is heaped on my life.There are times when the

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The waves are now lapping over the sides of the boat. The wind has shredded the sail and tying the rudder is of no use in keeping us on course. I think it’s time to tap Him on the shoulder.“Have you no faith?”“Uh, hey, I think I’ve shown that I do.”The mast just collapsed into the water. Did I mention it was RAGING WATER!!? And it’s dark and I can’t see to steer even if I could in this storm.Tap,

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“So, when did you become a Christian?”I think that’s a generational question. I have surveyed a few friends and their response was similar to mine, a puzzled look. Or perhaps the crowed I run with is just part of that fringe Christian group that really hasn’t been saved.No, I think it’s generational, or perhaps associated with societal differences. Where you were raised, how you were raised has

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“So, when did you become a Christian?” Wow, how do I answer that? “I don’t know. Some people can tell you the day and time they became one. Some had a miraculous experience, some heard God, saw the light, were touched… Not me. I’m not sure when IT happened.” That’s the best answer I can give. I am occasionally asked “Are you sure you’re a Christian?” OK, that’s a question my wife asks half

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