thoughts on the bible.
words of rich mullins.
may we breath deeply.
The Bible is not a book for the
faint of heart. It is a book full of all
the greed and glory and violence and
tenderness and sex and betrayal that
benefits mankind. It is not a collection
of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious
little church mice. It does not so much
nibble at our shoe as it cuts to the heart
and splits the marrow from bone to bone.
It does not give us answers fitted to our
smaller minded questions, but truth that
goes beyond what we even know to ask.’
“I don’t think you read the Bible to know
truth. I think you read the Bible to find
God, that we encounter Him there, that —
and I love Paul calls — Paul says that the
Scriptures are God’s breath. And I kinda
go, ‘Wow.’ So let’s breathe this as deeply
as possible. And this is what liturgy
offers that all the razzamatazz of our
modern worship can’t touch.
“A lot of times we think something spiritual
is happening, and it’s merely aesthetics.
Yeah, that’s why it always bugs me when you
— at the end of a concert, someone’ll say,
‘Wow, the Spirit really worked.’ And I
kinda go, ‘How would you even be able to
know that? It was so noisy in here
tonight. How would you know if the Sprit
was working?’ ‘Well, I was really moved.’
Well, that’s an emotional thing. That’s
not a spiritual thing. A spiritual thing
is folding your clothes at the end of the
day. Spiritual thing is making your bed.
Spiritual thing is taking cookies to your
neighbor that’s a shut in, or raking their
front yard because they’re too old to do
it. That’s spirituality. Get a warm, oozy
feeling about God is an emotional thing.
There’s nothing wrong with it. I think
there is nothing more practical than real
spirituality. But nothing more fun than
just a good, heartfelt, emotional
experience of God. ‘Cause I think emotions
are good. They’re only dangerous when we
come away from an experience where we were
emotionally manipulated, and we confuse
that with being convicted. I think
conviction, there is an emotion that
accompanies that, but it certainly goes
deeper than just coming away going ‘Oh,
isn’t God neat?’
may we breath deeply.
The Bible is not a book for the
faint of heart. It is a book full of all
the greed and glory and violence and
tenderness and sex and betrayal that
benefits mankind. It is not a collection
of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious
little church mice. It does not so much
nibble at our shoe as it cuts to the heart
and splits the marrow from bone to bone.
It does not give us answers fitted to our
smaller minded questions, but truth that
goes beyond what we even know to ask.’
“I don’t think you read the Bible to know
truth. I think you read the Bible to find
God, that we encounter Him there, that —
and I love Paul calls — Paul says that the
Scriptures are God’s breath. And I kinda
go, ‘Wow.’ So let’s breathe this as deeply
as possible. And this is what liturgy
offers that all the razzamatazz of our
modern worship can’t touch.
“A lot of times we think something spiritual
is happening, and it’s merely aesthetics.
Yeah, that’s why it always bugs me when you
— at the end of a concert, someone’ll say,
‘Wow, the Spirit really worked.’ And I
kinda go, ‘How would you even be able to
know that? It was so noisy in here
tonight. How would you know if the Sprit
was working?’ ‘Well, I was really moved.’
Well, that’s an emotional thing. That’s
not a spiritual thing. A spiritual thing
is folding your clothes at the end of the
day. Spiritual thing is making your bed.
Spiritual thing is taking cookies to your
neighbor that’s a shut in, or raking their
front yard because they’re too old to do
it. That’s spirituality. Get a warm, oozy
feeling about God is an emotional thing.
There’s nothing wrong with it. I think
there is nothing more practical than real
spirituality. But nothing more fun than
just a good, heartfelt, emotional
experience of God. ‘Cause I think emotions
are good. They’re only dangerous when we
come away from an experience where we were
emotionally manipulated, and we confuse
that with being convicted. I think
conviction, there is an emotion that
accompanies that, but it certainly goes
deeper than just coming away going ‘Oh,
isn’t God neat?’
posted by lp at 9:41 PM
1 Comments:
Just got your comments. Nice. Thanks, glad you enjoyed the pic. I thought it was nice and reminiscent of the good ole fields I drove by miles after miles.
Christmas in JCity would be awesome! BUT...I will be in Texas. My family does Thanksgiving in Rogers then Christmas in Texas with my grandparents. Sorry buddy. Good idea, though. Someday you'll get to meet Brooke, someday. Like I said, it would prolly only happen if you came to Arkansas. She's a loser and won't go anywhere without Garrett.
Miss you.
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