More tangenting...

Was writing a note to a good friend tonight and ended up rambling some thoughts that seemed like they might make a good blog...So since it has been a while...Here they are...Probably just the same stuff I always say with different words...What can I say? I'm a simple person... :)

I'm done with subscribing to any one kind of expression of faith in Jesus...Every move of God ever has been quickly tied down into religion. Even in the subtlest of forms. Something cool happens and it gets bottled, given a name, touted as the missing piece to perfect worship and doing of God stuff, anything prior is pashawed as inferior. I do it, I see every church/movement/denomonation I have ever seen do it....Everyone thinks their way is the best...And maybe I am learning that Jesus loves ALL of it. That he shows up where He is invited by a sincere heart. There doesn't have to be factions and division. It's pride (and I am guilty of it) that kills the heart of love. And I'm sick to death of seeing love and relationships devoured by it. Maybe what I'm doing is all effed up and wrong, maybe my theology is not perfect and my hermeneutics askew but I love Jesus and in the end, I hope that is what matters....Because even with all the shouting from every roof top of what works, I have yet to see true unity in the body of Christ in all of my 38 years. Just periods of cool stuff disrupted at some point by stupid shit. Don't get me wrong, I love my church and I love Sozo but they are just shadows. My job as I see it (and reflected in my name) is to be a warrior of light and grace. However that may play out. If I bring those things with me, the enemy will flee. He's so not worth the energy I used to give him. I am just happy that Jesus is Who He is and Did what He did. Let me just walk my life out and bring Him with me wherever I go. Religion in all its obvious and subtle, ghastly forms closely followed by politics are so out of my life. Bring on the joy, the peace and the Kingdom - whatever vehicle is used to do so....

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Francy said…
What does "hermeneutics" mean? It wasn't in my dictionary.
5:47 PM
Helen Ann said…
Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible.
6:11 PM
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