i am going to try to think quickly onscreen. i've been pensive all evening, and i generally try to get some of that down to come back to later when i don't have quite so much on my mind
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I can identify somewhat with your thoughts on the church. Last year I went to a Vineyard church in Myrtle Beach, and it was so refreshing because, like the Point, it was geared toward those who don't normally go to church, so we'd have prostitutes and leather-clad bikers share seats with white collared businessmen, and they would all feel at home. On the flip side, the church I am in now is a primarily African-American pentecostal church. So where a certain sense of freedom was lacking in the Vineyard church, it is abundant in my current church. However, where religion abounds here, it is absent there. I feel like I can't find the in-between...and I miss the digging deep into the Word like I've found in some more traditional churches
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Re: an afterthoughtsomedaysmuseMarch 27 2007, 02:11:19 UTC
good article; thanks.
i have noticed that searching for the in-between is much like riding a pendulum. i determine that i don't want this, so i move toward the opposite, but that's just too much and i'm swinging back again... (i do this in relationships too, i have found.) it is my hope that this pendulum is slowing, swinging in smaller and smaller arcs, until i will finally rest where gravity, and not momentum, fixes me.
Re: another good onesomedaysmuseApril 4 2007, 02:04:26 UTC
again, quite a good article. i empathize a good bit. the vacuum is real.
i am planning to be there sunday. we're having an early Easter dinner at 4 so that i can. yay for understanding family! of course it will be another double-churching day. but mass should be cool as long as we don't unwittingly pick the children's service.
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i have noticed that searching for the in-between is much like riding a pendulum. i determine that i don't want this, so i move toward the opposite, but that's just too much and i'm swinging back again... (i do this in relationships too, i have found.) it is my hope that this pendulum is slowing, swinging in smaller and smaller arcs, until i will finally rest where gravity, and not momentum, fixes me.
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:)
Hope you can make it to church this Sunday; I'd love to see ya. :)
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i am planning to be there sunday. we're having an early Easter dinner at 4 so that i can. yay for understanding family! of course it will be another double-churching day. but mass should be cool as long as we don't unwittingly pick the children's service.
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