Ideas about Stretching your Faith

Epic-Group — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:41:53 -0700

We talked this past Sunday about being a saferous church. Here are a few of the posted ideas that centered around stretching your faith.

Continue to address and respond to controversial matters
Theological debate club
Quit being soft on doctrine
Wrestle with the question of gay marriage

Do you like any of these? Are any of these safe or are they dangerous?
If yours wasn’t included or got misrepresented, speak up!

Paradox?

frances — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:02:17 -0700

I have this friend who used to wonder, “can God microwave a burrito that is so hot that he could not eat it?” i know it’s a silly musing, but it makes me think about other, bigger faith questions. in one of my seminary classes we learned that many aspects of the christian faith are paradoxes. i started thinking about the ones i could name:

-jesus is fully god and fully man
-the first will be last
-the beatitudes (matthew 5:3-12) which boil down to “lucky are the unlucky”
-god is both just and merciful
-the bible says sin’s power is destroyed, but i still struggle with it in this life