Comments for It's A Beautiful Day http://itsabeautifulday.wordpress.com Better to Be Kind Than Insist on Being Right Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:40:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Barna Is On Top of Things Once Again by Jon Acuff http://itsabeautifulday.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/barna-is-on-top-of-things-once-again/#comment-5 Jon Acuff Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:40:38 +0000 http://itsabeautifulday.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-5 It's been a while since I've read some Barna, thanks for the reminder. And I love Nouwen too, good to see other people dig him. Jon www.prodigaljohn.com It’s been a while since I’ve read some Barna, thanks for the reminder. And I love Nouwen too, good to see other people dig him.

Jon
http://www.prodigaljohn.com

]]> Comment on What a Week by jessica http://itsabeautifulday.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/what-a-week/#comment-4 jessica Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:28:08 +0000 http://itsabeautifulday.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/what-a-week/#comment-4 PS Nine marathons is AWESOME!!! Ambulance rides aren't quite the same thrill. :) PS Nine marathons is AWESOME!!! Ambulance rides aren’t quite the same thrill. :)

]]> Comment on What a Week by jessica http://itsabeautifulday.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/what-a-week/#comment-3 jessica Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:26:56 +0000 http://itsabeautifulday.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/what-a-week/#comment-3 So a couple of months ago I came across this book: Leadership by the Book : Tools to Transform Your Workplace. Toted as the leadership how-to with Biblical backup, it is by well-known authors Kenneth Blanchard, Bill Hybels, & Phil Hodges. I started off reading hoping for some deep reflections. But, somehow, most of it came off to me like a cheap, superficial story with some truth, but kind of missing the real point. Maybe my problem with it is kind of what Scott's article said, that we take the Bible and put into our own context of individualism rather than trying to understand the meaning of the stories within their context, the author's true intent. What a major fallacy if people decide scripture means whatever "I" want or however "I" can best apply it. Ugh. Where is our focus? On self? others? or God? I know which one of those three I think should be first. It's so easy to complain about the things that aren't right (like I just did); it's much harder to work toward making things right. But I think that's a part of the call of God throughout His story. So a couple of months ago I came across this book: Leadership by the Book : Tools to Transform Your Workplace. Toted as the leadership how-to with Biblical backup, it is by well-known authors Kenneth Blanchard, Bill Hybels, & Phil Hodges. I started off reading hoping for some deep reflections. But, somehow, most of it came off to me like a cheap, superficial story with some truth, but kind of missing the real point. Maybe my problem with it is kind of what Scott’s article said, that we take the Bible and put into our own context of individualism rather than trying to understand the meaning of the stories within their context, the author’s true intent. What a major fallacy if people decide scripture means whatever “I” want or however “I” can best apply it. Ugh. Where is our focus? On self? others? or God? I know which one of those three I think should be first.

It’s so easy to complain about the things that aren’t right (like I just did); it’s much harder to work toward making things right. But I think that’s a part of the call of God throughout His story.

]]> Comment on Observations – By Robert Webber by jessica http://itsabeautifulday.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/observations-by-robert-webber/#comment-2 jessica Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:49:20 +0000 http://itsabeautifulday.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/observations-by-robert-webber/#comment-2 Ha, I like that last one - McSpirituality. I want mine for the lowest price possible, please, and hold the heavy metal music. I get the six points and have observed most of them. The one I'm not clear on is #2. So what are the characteristics of classic pietism? Is the author suggesting that communal reflection on Scripture is a bad thing, and if so, in what context? I know that reader response is one method of scriptural understanding and that its pitfalls include understanding and interpretation toward whatever the reader is inclined - for example, if I'm interested in how women have been treated, my interpretation may entirely miss the author's point or original intent because I'm so focused on my agenda. Is that what Webber is saying could be bad about communal reflection? an extraBiblical agenda? Ha, I like that last one – McSpirituality. I want mine for the lowest price possible, please, and hold the heavy metal music.

I get the six points and have observed most of them. The one I’m not clear on is #2. So what are the characteristics of classic pietism? Is the author suggesting that communal reflection on Scripture is a bad thing, and if so, in what context?

I know that reader response is one method of scriptural understanding and that its pitfalls include understanding and interpretation toward whatever the reader is inclined – for example, if I’m interested in how women have been treated, my interpretation may entirely miss the author’s point or original intent because I’m so focused on my agenda. Is that what Webber is saying could be bad about communal reflection? an extraBiblical agenda?

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