fear
I've just finishing watching V for Vendetta, and not long ago finished reading How (not) to Speak of God by Pete Rollins (founder of Ikon, described as an iconic, apolcalytic, hertical, emerging and failing 'church' check out http://www.ikon.org.uk/ikon/ to find out more) and i feel strange... i feel empowered, angry, frustrated, scared, shocked, powerfull but useless.
let me try to explain.
Vendetta has been described as 'anarchy for teenagers' a phase that we went through when we wanted to rebel against everything, parents, school, authority, but now that we are out of that phase we have lost our vigor, our fight, what do we fear.. everything.
I love watching small children (not in a weird kinda way) but they have no fear, no sence of danger! i watch 2 year olds jumping from the 3rd step of our staircase, with enjoyment and thrill in thier eyes, no fear! they run around with not a care in the world, they fall over, cry for literally 2 seconds, enough for you to notice them, then carry on, on the obstical that they fell off! amazing!
most of us would have never got back on again, but childern have no fear!
anachy? is terrorism justified? can we rise up as a nation, without fear and stand up against things we feel strongly about?
the thing that strikes me the most about rollins book is the message of Love, its all about love! You love God, you love your neighbour, simple! but sadly not... because some people think you have to know God to love God, but that is something we can never do! fully know God. even when we think we've got it we ain't!
so how do theses to merge? why do i feel so confussed?
If all is required of us is to love, then where did we go wrong? surely, thats easy! you know, go feed a homelss guy, or give him all your change, or go volunteer in South America for 6 weeks and build an ophanage, and experience how they live. but if you went and did all that stuff just because someone told you too, that is not love, is an obligation! you feel guilty. you demonstrate love best when you don't realise your doing it.
like a habit (not the ones nuns wear!) but rather; A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition. (thanks dictionary.com!) ie au naturel!
terrorism and love? is this possible? can the two exsist side by side? can we be angry about injustice, but demonstrate love? are we able to love God and our neighbour?
i feel that the emerging church has something very inmportant to say about how we interpret scripture. a fresh new perspective that can be seen as heretical, but sometimes the heretics, are right! look at Paul or Peter or Mary Magdelene!
these people were outcasts, because they went against the grain, they rubbed people up the wrong way, they got angry and were killed and stoned for it! but not because they wanted to be different, but because they believed so dearly in their cause that they were ready to die!
can you call them terrorists?
comments welcomed
let me try to explain.
Vendetta has been described as 'anarchy for teenagers' a phase that we went through when we wanted to rebel against everything, parents, school, authority, but now that we are out of that phase we have lost our vigor, our fight, what do we fear.. everything.
I love watching small children (not in a weird kinda way) but they have no fear, no sence of danger! i watch 2 year olds jumping from the 3rd step of our staircase, with enjoyment and thrill in thier eyes, no fear! they run around with not a care in the world, they fall over, cry for literally 2 seconds, enough for you to notice them, then carry on, on the obstical that they fell off! amazing!
most of us would have never got back on again, but childern have no fear!
anachy? is terrorism justified? can we rise up as a nation, without fear and stand up against things we feel strongly about?
the thing that strikes me the most about rollins book is the message of Love, its all about love! You love God, you love your neighbour, simple! but sadly not... because some people think you have to know God to love God, but that is something we can never do! fully know God. even when we think we've got it we ain't!
so how do theses to merge? why do i feel so confussed?
If all is required of us is to love, then where did we go wrong? surely, thats easy! you know, go feed a homelss guy, or give him all your change, or go volunteer in South America for 6 weeks and build an ophanage, and experience how they live. but if you went and did all that stuff just because someone told you too, that is not love, is an obligation! you feel guilty. you demonstrate love best when you don't realise your doing it.
like a habit (not the ones nuns wear!) but rather; A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition. (thanks dictionary.com!) ie au naturel!
terrorism and love? is this possible? can the two exsist side by side? can we be angry about injustice, but demonstrate love? are we able to love God and our neighbour?
i feel that the emerging church has something very inmportant to say about how we interpret scripture. a fresh new perspective that can be seen as heretical, but sometimes the heretics, are right! look at Paul or Peter or Mary Magdelene!
these people were outcasts, because they went against the grain, they rubbed people up the wrong way, they got angry and were killed and stoned for it! but not because they wanted to be different, but because they believed so dearly in their cause that they were ready to die!
can you call them terrorists?
comments welcomed
posted by dee @ 5:32 PM
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