Comments on: go where god is, not where you believe god ought to be.

By: angelaharms

angelaharms — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:35:00 +0000

Bell's choppiness is a challenge for me, too, but I push through it because I love what he's saying.

@andrewtatum I meant it in the nicest possible way. Seriously, my gratitude toward him is immeasurable.

By: andrewtatum

andrewtatum — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:42:55 +0000

Great post! As a youth minister, I often become painfully aware of my own attempts to "take God where I believe God ought to be" instead of helping the youth in my church & my community experience God where God already is (namely, everywhere). I am consistently challenged by your posts! Keep em coming!

By: andrewtatum

andrewtatum — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:40:14 +0000

Is Berger utilizing Michael Polanyi in this? Or is "plausibility structure" simply a general sociological / philosophical term that I've only, until now, encountered in Polanyi?

By: andrewtatum

andrewtatum — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:37:14 +0000

Rob Bell? Heresy?

By: angelaharms

angelaharms — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:35:00 +0000

Bell's choppiness is a challenge for me, too, but I push through it because I love what he's saying.

@andrewtatum I meant it in the nicest possible way. Seriously, my gratitude toward him is immeasurable.

By: andrewtatum

andrewtatum — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:42:55 +0000

By: andrewtatum

andrewtatum — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:40:14 +0000

Is Berger utilizing Michael Polanyi in this? Or is "plausibility structure" simply a general sociological / philosophical term that I've only, until now, encountered in Polanyi?

By: andrewtatum

andrewtatum — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:37:14 +0000

Rob Bell? Heresy?

By: Amy Moffitt

Amy Moffitt — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:18:22 +0000

I simply love this post, Drew. I think the church is a wonderful thing because it provides much needed social connections that our local communities don't easily provide, and because, when it's done well, it can provide gentle and loving prayer support and comraderie on the difficult path of a life lived in humility in the Presence of God… but I no longer believe that church offers some sort of special access to the Presence of God… unless He chooses to show up there.

By: Drew Tatusko

Drew Tatusko — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:00:42 +0000

i can't really do bell all that well. very choppy stuff. if god is contained in human religious structures, then god is not real. god truly is dead because we killed god. what i have found to my delight is that this is not true. religions clip the wings off of the divine hoping that the bird will stay caged like a pet. fortunately this bird keeps growing the wings back and escaping from our grasp.