I'm excited!

[Barry]

Anyone else excited?

I mean about humanity in general.
Don't know if I'll live long enough to see really spectacular things and for all I know we might be in for some short term hard times, but I'm excited!

I'm really excited about our future!
And some major challenges lie ahead.
That's exciting too!

Barry

[Barry]

The thrust of the bible is not about how one gets to heaven but about how heaven becomes part of creation.

Barry

[Me Again]

Barry, I'm trying dude...lots of negativity, especially amongst the religious folk.

But...I am excited about who I am, and what God is doing in my life.....YAHOO!!!!!!

[Jotham]

I'm with ya Barry.

Some may recall years ago my siggy read:

"The Future's so bright - I got to wear shades"

It was my twist on the R&R song that was looking forward to doom N gloom of nuclear fallout in our future. . . relating that doom N gloom mentality to my former futurist self and most of my friends. Though my twist meaning that it is only going to get better as we continue to grow in the kingdom.

Now...: "It's so bright, I gotta wear shades :cool: "

i can't tell you how often i rattle my friends during convos that i'm looking to a bright future. their theology does not allow for it, before all hell breaking loose on the scene.

[Bass]

Excited has got to be better than sitting around waiting on a rapture!

[davo]

Yeah good one fellas, I'm with you on this for sure.

And hey Bass I'll say g'day and welcome here... "welcome!!" :9_cool:

[Jotham]

Excited has got to be better than sitting around waiting on a rapture!Totally Bass. I can still recall my mornings in the gloomNdoom crowd waking up and wondering if "This will be the day" ?!

Life is so much better knowing that the day and light has arrived for all.

cheers,
thom

[Barry]

"God loves you and there is nothing that you can do about it and no way you can change it.
So deal with it."

Can you imagine the threat that God's love was for the old covenant man?

Barry

[Lauri]

Barry wrote: Can you imagine the threat that God's love was for the old covenant man?

They probably had a similar reaction as my Sister-in-law who is Catholic when we told her God loves EVERYONE without condition. She said "Don't tell me that, I've worked too hard to get where I'm at."

Lauri

[Barry]

They probably had a similar reaction as my Sister-in-law who is Catholic when we told her God loves EVERYONE without condition. She said "Don't tell me that, I've worked too hard to get where I'm at."

Lauri

Thank you so much Lauri for sharing this.
It is imho very important!
Barry

[Me Again]

They probably had a similar reaction as my Sister-in-law who is Catholic when we told her God loves EVERYONE without condition. She said "Don't tell me that, I've worked too hard to get where I'm at."

Lauri

Some inner impulse that I have loves the High Church Liturgy, but cannot bring myself to be Catholic for this very reason. And it ain't just Catholics - man have I gotten beaten down lately for even suggesting that God might actually love everybody - even gays. :eek:

[Barry]

Some inner impulse that I have loves the High Church Liturgy, but cannot bring myself to be Catholic for this very reason. And it ain't just Catholics - man have I gotten beaten down lately for even suggesting that God might actually love everybody - even gays. :eek:

Hey Ed and everyone.
Warning, warning, really big can of worms about to be opened!

For all its failing and all its shortcomings the Church often stood for a place where goodness and caring would come from and where elements that improved society emerged from. Things like equality, one nation under God, abolition of slavery and many other things have come from.
There was a time when almost anything that was good and decent came from the church. At least that is how I see it historically.
Has society now evolved enough (at least in some places) that it too is now contributing and in some cases ahead of what we have viewed as the "Church"?

Now that imho is a big can of worms to open up. And imo the answer is yes.
Not as if one is culturally speaking completely independent of the other, but imo there has been a real change taking place.

I think that the consciousness of the love of God without condition is growing and taking effect and is having an impact where is has not been traditionally seen to be.
And I think that the "Church" or church culture doesn't know quite what to do about it yet.

Now society at large may not always know the "why" or have the so called "proof" but this does not mean that some people don't know a good then when the see it or have it and when they experience it.

Which opens the next point. Most of the "work" that we do as one's who know that love or encountered that love (from the scriptures) will be in living that love. Although personally speaking I won't do it independent of the knowledge gained from the scriptures, I also know that such a knowledge is not just head knowledge but rather living knowledge.

JMO
Barry

PS, I'm excited!