If I haven't lost my 6 faithful readers by now (because I have nothing worthwhile to say, and its been 8 days since my last blog) then I'm sure I will this week.
I want to touch on a few hot topics this week. The first is baptism, everyone likes to talk about it, but nobody really has a clue what is going on (myself included). I want to look at baptism from a very scripturally and historically grounded point of view. This means I will be trying to study more in my free time, which dwindles as we near the holydays.
Secondly, I have for years now had a serious problem with prayer. Every book on prayer I've read (including the popular disciplines books by foster) has seemed vapid and has done nothing but make me feel like a spiritual failure. Again I would like to take a very scriptural and somewhat traditional look at prayer. I'm not sure how I feel about public prayer at all, much less the way we pray in church today. We also have lost so much of the meaning of prayer as our consumeristic society has taken it and made it into the thing that separates us from secular society.
Things might get a bit heated, as they often do, but I hope we can tear down some old, modern, american, self-centered, consumeristic, divisive walls and reconstruct a beautiful portrait of how these ideas fit into God's plan for creation.
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Yeah, I was reading Luke one day, and it suddenly dawned on me that the only time that Christ didn't pray in private was when he was teaching the desciples the Lords Prayer... and I don't think that was actually him praying as much as it was him teaching how to pray lol. Have you found a scripture passage where a biblical figure is praying in public with others/ for others?
There are a some mentions, I believe, of public prayer in the early church. Also maybe a reference to Jesus praying with the disciples once. I really feel the need to study the scripture along with the church tradition on this one because I would have to be pretty arrogant to think that upon a whim I can realize something the church has had wrong for millenia.
anywho, I'm going to spend some good time studying it this coming week, and I'll let you know what I see.
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