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Identity Under Attack (Beyond Identiy, Chapter 1)

“Other people exist as means to buttress their weak and dependent sense of self, not as persons in their own right. Motivated by fear and anxiety they are like a baby bird in a nest with a huge open mouth pointed to the sky shouting ‘feed me!’ ‘make me feel like a person!’” p.5

What a mirror statement. I know I have felt this, and thought this, even if I may never have verbalized this. Looking back over my personal journey, I can see a desperate cry, especially from older, wiser, more gifted men, particularly in ministry, to pour their life into me, and being disappointed when it hasn’t happened. While there’s nothing wrong for this desire, I have viewed other people as solely existing for my needs, and not as persons with their own lives, dilemmas and complications of their own.

But how do you reconcile these two? What is the balance between craving mentoring to guide and instruct, and craving approval and worth to feed this insecurity?

Identity Under Attack (Beyond Identiy)

Well,

Since it has been a thoroughly long time since I've posted anything on either of my blogs (I think I have 3 now), I'm trying to get back into it with a series of posts from some of the reading I've been doing while in seminary. I don't imaging that there are too many of you out there still reading this thing, but if there are, I hope you enjoy and are encouraged. Some posts will be informative/provoke-a-thought, others will probably be a little more raw/journal-entry type, so don't be offended by either. This next series of posts will mostly revolve around the book "Beyond Identity" by Dick Keyes.

Enjoy!

Great Post from Another Blog

Let me encourage anyone who is reading this blog right now, to click on this link and also check out this other blog, and particularly this post by Anthony Bradley. It is from the recent Reform and Resurge Conference held out in Seatle just a few weeks ago. I only regret that I couldn't go, but am thankful that they are releasing alot of the sessions on Audio over the internet.

Enjoy!

http://theresurgence.com/ab_blog_2006-06-07_toward_a_missional_worldview

Quick fix

So you know you're new to this blog world when you put up a post, and then your whole layout looks completely different!!!

This is an attempt to try and get it back to normal!

So enjoy the Van Gogh painting until the next post!

See you at the pole!

I ran across this post on another blog I frequent (and highly recomend), and thought it worth referencing and linking. You know, as a Christian, I do lament the overall attitude towards approaching others concerning faith and life - namely, I wait for them to come to me. I love and need to hear more stories like this, to break me out of that rut.

Check it out!

http://www.stevekmccoy.com/reformissionary/2006/02/lap_dances_for_.html#comments

Earl morning Tidbit to Chew On

"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."
--C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

I personally feel somewhat starved for true friendship, especially considering the upcoming life stage and transition I find myself in (going back to school in St. Louis with a family of 4), but is it related to my lack of nourishment on solitude, silence, private and meditation?

Does our ability to connect meaningfully with our selves have anyting to do with our ability to connect meaningfully with others?

Thoughts...comments...suggestions....stories of the same?

RE-NEWAL Notes

These are some thoughts from a sermon given by Mike Hearon at FPC Augusta on Sunday night, January 15, 2006. These are some of the most powerful and insightful statements I have ever heard from this man, as well, as any sermon or pulpit recently. Each begs further dialogue and discussion, but for now, I will just list them

I Peter 1:1-9 - "...in this you greatly rejoice..."

• This epistle addresses those who are: Drained, Devasted, Drifting and Distortred with the Gospel
• The Gospel brings: Passion, Power, Purpose and Perspective
• Passion - desire from within - "...His great mercy has caused..."; LAW is demand from without; GOSPEL is desire from within
• Power - hope to our condition
• Purspose - worthy goal to live for
• Perspective - faith as our weapon

That which you are rejoicing in will either unleash newness in your life or will block you from it!It'll either be the GOSPEL, or it will be SOME/ANYTHING else: world, flesh

Its not your circumstances!!! Its how you live (how and in what you rejoice) in the midst of your circumstances

From the song, "The Love of God" by Mullins (???)

"Here I'm tested and made worthy, tossed about but lifted up

in the reckless raging fury that they call the love of God."