Comments for Timodial - About Being Me http://timodialstribulations.wordpress.com Just another Wordpress.com weblog Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:43:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on I’ve Been Thinking About History (Essentials Red) by Michael Craythorn http://timodialstribulations.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/i%e2%80%99ve-been-thinking-about-history-essentials-red/#comment-152 Michael Craythorn Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:43:11 +0000 http://timodialstribulations.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-152 Hey Tim, I also loved the quote about forgetting, and, for me it has started a whole new line of thinking and questioning within myself. "Biblical remembering makes the power and the saving effects of the event present to the worshipping community.... Forgetting brings death, and remembering brings life".1 I am impacted by the way Dan talks about the fact that our worship tells a story, and if we tell the story of God’s redemption and utilize the Christian Story as God tells it, then in fact are bringing God’s life. Webber writes “Through worship the world learns its own story. And how will others hear unless we do God’s story in worship”.1 What story do we want the world to learn – of course we want the world to learn God’s story. In fact, I distinctly remember (and aparently that is hard to do, or have I forgotton already), my studies of the early days and times of the Israelites, when God through Moses led them out of Egypt, and God would do something miraculous for them, and the next moment, they would turn around and follow after the next big thing. My immediate reaction to their plight and their wanderings was to say in my heart, that there was no way I would be like them. Now, it didn't take long for me to realize that I was in fact just like them, and in fact there was no difference between the way I act and react to God, than any one of the Israelites. Maybe, just maybe, there is a little pearl of wisdom in this quote, that will help all of us to make a difference in this world, and we can then help the world to learn God's story. "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promises, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance".2 1 Robert E.WEBBER, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God's Narrative (Grand Rapids:Baker Books, 2008),43-44 2 NIV - 2 Peter 3:8-9 Hey Tim, I also loved the quote about forgetting, and, for me it has started a whole new line of thinking and questioning within myself. “Biblical remembering makes the power and the saving effects of the event present to the worshipping community…. Forgetting brings death, and remembering brings life”.1

I am impacted by the way Dan talks about the fact that our worship tells a story, and if we tell the story of God’s redemption and utilize the Christian Story as God tells it, then in fact are bringing God’s life.

Webber writes “Through worship the world learns its own story. And how will others hear unless we do God’s story in worship”.1 What story do we want the world to learn – of course we want the world to learn God’s story.

In fact, I distinctly remember (and aparently that is hard to do, or have I forgotton already), my studies of the early days and times of the Israelites, when God through Moses led them out of Egypt, and God would do something miraculous for them, and the next moment, they would turn around and follow after the next
big thing. My immediate reaction to their plight and their wanderings was to say in my heart, that there was no way I would be like them. Now, it didn’t take long for me to realize that I was in fact just like them, and in fact there was no difference between the way I act and react to God, than any one of the Israelites.

Maybe, just maybe, there is a little pearl of wisdom in this quote, that will help all of us to make a difference in this world, and we can then help the world to learn God’s story. “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promises, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance”.2

1 Robert E.WEBBER, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Grand Rapids:Baker Books, 2008),43-44
2 NIV – 2 Peter 3:8-9

]]> Comment on I’ve Been Thinking About History (Essentials Red) by Sharee http://timodialstribulations.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/i%e2%80%99ve-been-thinking-about-history-essentials-red/#comment-151 Sharee Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:21:12 +0000 http://timodialstribulations.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-151 You are so spot on about "forgetting" Tim. I fondly remember my Grandma who constantly loved telling stories of days gone by and how good God had been to her. That came to mind as I read your comments. We don't do that as much these days, I know I don't. There is much to celebrate in the remembering. Thanks for sharing - we look forward to more! You are so spot on about “forgetting” Tim. I fondly remember my Grandma who constantly loved telling stories of days gone by and how good God had been to her. That came to mind as I read your comments. We don’t do that as much these days, I know I don’t. There is much to celebrate in the remembering.

Thanks for sharing – we look forward to more!

]]> Comment on I’ve Been Thinking About History (Essentials Red) by Di http://timodialstribulations.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/i%e2%80%99ve-been-thinking-about-history-essentials-red/#comment-150 Di Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:59:51 +0000 http://timodialstribulations.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-150 Hey Tim, so glad you included that last comment of the prayer you prayed when we got together this week...as the passion and the joy that exploded through when you prayed that was for me, 'memorable'. I wonder if it will become a 'marker' for this short journey we are all on with Essentials? Hey Tim, so glad you included that last comment of the prayer you prayed when we got together this week…as the passion and the joy that exploded through when you prayed that was for me, ‘memorable’.
I wonder if it will become a ‘marker’ for this short journey we are all on with Essentials?

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