::@:: Reality of Dreams ::@::

The following is quite simply a series of short thoughts/ideas/musings that I have written at various points recently, they are of a religous nature and are meant to stimulate thought and discussion, please feel free to use them as you wish…

• are we losing our ability to discuss and debate rationaliy, or have we descended into a culture where if our beliefs, ideas, lifestyle, are challenged or questionned we lash out unable to discern the difference between honest questioning and personal attacks
• social action is not an added extra, and it is more than just “doing something” but also supporting financely, prayerfully, and behind the scenes
• there is a difference between controlling and influencing politics
• the word of God is more than just a book, even the bible
• are we being hemmed in, or rather freed by the elimination of tradition and dogma
• do we chat more, but talk less?
• Isaiah 30:12-18
• can we define God as being “love” when He is beyond comprehension, beyond our limited understanding of not only who and what God is, but also what love truly is
• what are we doing, and why are we doing it, is it because of tradition or need?
• can the addage “its not quantity but quality” be applied to the church and its congregations?
• what should we do when the place we attend seems to offer fewer and fewer reasons for us to attend or feel connected?
• there is no place for spiritual vegetarianism, or carnivorism, we must eat a balanced diet of everything even it means something we must chew and digest
• doubts cannot always be wished away or denied until they go away sometimes we must seek the source out and work through the cause
• we are all unique individuals yet we apply one set of rules/guidelines for learning, discipline, etc. We may be created as equals and deserve to be treated as such, but that does not mean we are all the same.
• why is there a growing anti-intellectulism among Christian circles, our God created our minds, forged our desire to seek out truth and knowledge, took care in creating a world of infinite beauty and depth
• Does revival mean chaos and disorder?
• Does revival mean unusual behaviour?
• Does revival mean “miracles” will happen, or rather should they not always be present on our churches?
• Should revival instead take the form of social action and true community?
• Has revival been put in a box as taking on a certain feeling or style?
• Revivals all end, they all stop, revivals are temporary and are meant instead to led to a more permanent transformation of the greater community
• Should Pentecost be seen as, or compared to, a revival, when it was the first outpouring, the birth of the church, not a revival?
• Can the enemy use, or even send, revivals to their goals and ends, perhaps to divert us with wonders and worship instead of life, and world, changing lives and deeds?

Hope you find something in there that you can chew over

Laters