Wednesday, February 20, 2008
No Singing
This Sunday for our service we're not going to be doing any singing. The reason being that our normal musicians are out of town and our backup is sick. I normally try to convince people who hate leading music to lead in these situations but I won't do that anymore. Also I've wanted to do this for awhile now anyway to try to expand our view of what corprate worship can be. The reason I post this is to see if any of you out there have any ideas for what we should do besides singing and the normal preaching. I have some ideas, but if you have any please give them to me.
Friday, February 15, 2008
MRDD Levy
The other day I had a conversation with a friend about whether or not he should vote for the local MRDD levy. At first the question for him was not whether he should vote yes or no, but whether or not he should even vote. I have many friends, who I respect greatly, who chose for religious reasons not to participate in our elections. My friend fits this bill, but was wondering if voting for levies for important things such as supporting the local board of MRDD was something completely different than voting for a politician.
He then told me he wondered how he would even vote if he did even chose to vote on the levy. He considers himself more of a libertarian (I think that partially means the less taxes the better) and was wondering if taxing the general public was the best way to help support those who are supported by the board of MRDD. (This guy is a very good guy and would never ever do anything to hurt those with disabilities.) He then wondered allowed if maybe the church should be the one taking care of those with disabilities and not the government.
This gets me to my point (finally!). I’ve heard Christians talk my entire life about how welfare is bad because the Church should be the ones taking care of those needs and that the Church should take back over that role. My question is in God’s dream for His creation does He dream for the Church to take care of the least of these or does He dream for all of humanity, including the church, to do that? Some how I think it makes God happier when an entire city, county, state, or country decides to do something together to help out the cause of the widow, orphan, or alien than if the church just decided to do something.
So what’s wrong with us going to the voting booth on voting day and as a county saying we want to support an organization that helps out people with disabilities? Sure the Church should be helping out as well, but I’m sure God smiles when the rest of humanity gets something right as well. I mean shouldn’t Christians be thrilled when we see the world catching a partial vision of the Kingdom of God and shouldn’t we get involved in those efforts to bring a more holistic perspective to them?
Just some thoughts… hope they made sense.
He then told me he wondered how he would even vote if he did even chose to vote on the levy. He considers himself more of a libertarian (I think that partially means the less taxes the better) and was wondering if taxing the general public was the best way to help support those who are supported by the board of MRDD. (This guy is a very good guy and would never ever do anything to hurt those with disabilities.) He then wondered allowed if maybe the church should be the one taking care of those with disabilities and not the government.
This gets me to my point (finally!). I’ve heard Christians talk my entire life about how welfare is bad because the Church should be the ones taking care of those needs and that the Church should take back over that role. My question is in God’s dream for His creation does He dream for the Church to take care of the least of these or does He dream for all of humanity, including the church, to do that? Some how I think it makes God happier when an entire city, county, state, or country decides to do something together to help out the cause of the widow, orphan, or alien than if the church just decided to do something.
So what’s wrong with us going to the voting booth on voting day and as a county saying we want to support an organization that helps out people with disabilities? Sure the Church should be helping out as well, but I’m sure God smiles when the rest of humanity gets something right as well. I mean shouldn’t Christians be thrilled when we see the world catching a partial vision of the Kingdom of God and shouldn’t we get involved in those efforts to bring a more holistic perspective to them?
Just some thoughts… hope they made sense.
Friday, February 08, 2008
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