meditatio at the water's edge

some thoughts I've been thinking...

I think we might do well to 'reverse engineer' our 'statements of faith.' Maybe we would start by evaluating what we have done over the past year, three years, fifty years--whatever-- and ask, "What can we say we believe based on what we've done?"

It becomes the question of an achaeologist or an anthropologist. The answers might terrify us, but perhaps it would drive us to change our lives so they line up with what we profess.

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Some areas we might be professing one thing while believing another:

-Loving sinners
-Hating sin
-"Priesthood of all believers"
-"Jesus is Lord"
-"Love one another"
-"Make disciples"

-If you can think of some more, add them in the "Shout Out" below

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Some areas where there is flat-out confusion (in pop-evangelicalism) about what things mean:

-kingdom of God
-word of God
-community
-church
-Christ (as title)
-Charismata
-Saved
-justification
-truth
-righteous
-culture
-missional
-evangelism
-gospel