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The people in church should be more alive than anyone else. “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
So what does ‘life’ in church look like? discuss.
It sometimes feels like we’re already dead and that our Christian-ness gives us that ‘unfinished business’ to keep us hanging around well past our sell by dates.
lol
Along with n and all the company of saints…
So when are we the Bruce Willis character where it’s but a mirage?
They aren’t very good pew warmers, then!
Could have done with this last Sunday when I asked the congregation if we were closer to death or closer to life and why don’t we look more resurrected? C’est la vie or something like that.
Good to see you back in action Jon
If they’re “dead to sin” spiritually, that’s one thing; if they’re just plain spiritually dead, that’s another.
And deadly dull, uninteresting, and uninspiring, is still another.
Easy to write off the people in church but perhaps they are there looking for life?
Dead people have no arms
Jesus has left the building
I see – [as I'm typing], Jesus like a Pied Piper and people following Him wherever he goes, dancing…coming alive..
[just realised, that's similar to a scene in Godspell...haven't watched it recently though]
anyway…there’s a song in my mind but can’t think of it…
maybe the Crispin St.Peters’ one [The Pied Piper], but I think it’s another one.
verse from Lord of the Dance…
[ignore me...thinking aloud]
Stewart makes an exceedingly good point there in #9.
There _Should_ be dead people in church looking for life!
there should also be living people in church looking for the dead
I shared this with some friends a few years ago and they just looked at me blanc! My guess is they were dead, but then crap!! what if I am dead and they are alive and didn’t see me?
It’s a mirage, they just don’t turn the heating on till November 1st. WB jon and bless them students!
Carole @ 6: nah, but they make good draught excluders!
maybe if we got them outside of a ‘special’ building and endless meetings, they might come alive again.
Maybe things are more alive than they appear to be. Would we know life if we saw it? what does it look like? must there be more than this?
Would it be worse if Haley Joel said “I see Lukewarm people”?
Death is only the raw material of resurrection!! Great film!! I liked Unbreakable too! Dave
Keeping it light – one of my favourite book characters of all time has to be Terry Pratchetts DEATH – of HIM it is said, “The Death of the Disc was a traditionalist who prided himself on his personal service and spent most of the time being depressed because this was not appreciated. …. He still used a scythe, he’d point out, while the Deaths of other worlds had long ago invested in combined harvesters.” – dave
Mat 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
I think you must have sixth sense!
“So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.”
I often wonder what it was that goes through assassins minds, as they barge into classrooms ect shooting all and sundry. It never occured to me that they might see ‘dead people’.
They are merely inhuming them Subo.
On my i-pod this evening, on the way to church, the random song that was playing as I arrived was L7′s ‘Pretend We’re Dead’.
I heard it and I thought of here.
I’m sure their clients were very grateful for the elegance of the service rendered, Robb.
I have a feeling he’d be sating that a lot, in and out of the church.
saying*
Botti @15 – ok, that explains it. They do have arms, they are just tucked under the blankets they have wrapped around them is all. Duh.
This also reminds me of that movie Pleasantville.
Timmy – I have never been as gutted as the day I arrived at band practice back when we were at uni with my ‘new song’. Dr Ruth said “it is the same as ‘pretend that you’re dead’ by L7″. I asked the question “who”? having never heard the song before ever…….
………gutted……….
Enjoy!!
So tell me, just so that I can avoid it, which church does Jimmy Kranky go to?
That is the second time within 12 hours I have heard the words “Jimmy Kranky”. Am I being haunted by the ghost of Jimmy Kranky past??
I seem to recall we had a Kranky-esque exchange a few months back. Aah, the cream always rises to the top,
hey robb… are you honestly saying that you do a song as good as ‘pretend you’re dead’ in church? gosh! this really must be encouraged.
well he could be a prophet
or he could be a boy in shorts shouting
or he could be Jeremiah, in which case he would be both.
Robb@30: great minds think alike?
Robb@33: fools never differ? =]
Linus (16): “nah, but they make good draught excluders!”
“Lukewarm people” – according to the early chapters of Revelation, those are the ones (God? the author?) will ‘spit out of his mouth’.
Forgot to say, great song, Robb. And I hadn’t heard of them either
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My most encouraging song in church? Erm…..
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