tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156763359417341201.post592175620228783427..comments2023-10-23T10:12:38.638-07:00Comments on Jackie Speaks: I Love the Church of GodJackie David Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821811284424509542noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156763359417341201.post-77238710962636241772009-01-08T11:02:00.000-08:002009-01-08T11:02:00.000-08:00I guess the quote, "The church is a whore, and I a...I guess the quote, "The church is a whore, and I am her son", was not redemptive enough to quote here.... :)<BR/><BR/>I agree. We have to be committed somewhere to a community of faith, dependent on the Triune God revealed in Scripture and in His ongoing work in the world. I do think the Church of God is one of the best expressions but that we are not the only faithful expression of faith. Thus we need to learn to relate better to one another (ecumenism), to God and to the "impersonal construct of a vanishing meta-narrative." <BR/><BR/>We must live in relational covenant to God and to one another if we are truly to experience the intimacy for which we long. We berate the institution because it makes us cogs and yet we can have no intimacy (and cannot know ourselves) apart from a covenant with it.<BR/><BR/>Our faith, our lives and our future are bound up in the church (a tangible expression of it, not some esoteric ideal) and those saints whose vision of the church have nurtured our own faith.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for challenging those of us in younger generations to see that we have no life apart from the God who is in creation and in the church. Amidst economic and ecological calls for thinking locally, we really need to think about the importance of place for the renewal of all that we disparage.Derekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00864495175440904311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156763359417341201.post-87146145274748073752009-01-08T10:20:00.000-08:002009-01-08T10:20:00.000-08:00This is a wonderful testimony..but then again, you...This is a wonderful testimony..but then again, your testimonies usually are just that:<BR/><BR/>Wonderful!<BR/><BR/>Many of us (myself included) owe a great deal of gratitude to the Church of God.Phil Hooverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14613170792920440824noreply@blogger.com