Best Line of the day – Overheard at lunch:
I’m so tired of being invited to tell my story. Let’s tell God’s story – the story of redemption in Jesus Christ!
Best Line of the day – Overheard at lunch:
I’m so tired of being invited to tell my story. Let’s tell God’s story – the story of redemption in Jesus Christ!
What a great line! Amen! That really says it all about what has been so frustrating about TEC lately: it’s all about US when it should be all about Jesus. I’m so glad some folks are declaring that aloud.
I second that Amen….
I will add that in telling our story, i.e. narrative, we can then ignore God’s narrative, i.e. Truth, and do our own thing. Again it puts reason, i.e. experience, as the EC’s primary authority and guide to the Holy or divine and allows us to ignore Holy Scripture. This is a terrible mistake and we have seen the fruits of this over the years.
My response is Lord have mercy…and save us from our selves.
[i]As we began this morning we heard from Kay Myer, the national ECW president, mother of Holy Cross member Len Myer. She prayed the most wonderful opening prayer we are probably going to hear at this Convention. Kay spoke without a script. A magnificent woman and I thank God for her! Sadly, the delivery carts came with the morning mail about one minute into Kay’s speech, and scores of deputies got up, went and got their mail totally ignoring Kay. Very disrespectful. Kay also didn’t get the standing O that others around here get. She did get a hug from President Bonnie.[/i]
This seems particularly sad. Obviously this sort of thing can happen in a variety of settings and people of all persuasions can behave inappropriately, but why couldn’t the presiding officer remind people where they were and what they were about?
Of course, one can only tell “God’s Story” from a personal point of view as he or she understands it. In that sense it is not God’s Story … but an individual’s story of what he or she believes to be God’s story.
Can we speak truly about God? If yes (and Scripture invites us to say that we can because God has shared his story with us – or if you want we can speak because God Word has spoken with a human voice) – then we can truthfully (or falsely) tell God’s story.