Marginal Christianity

We end the month with a brief final reflection of paying attention to God. Paying attention to God in the immanent frame of the time we live in requires two things: -intention, and -repetition Intention : paying attention to God won’t just happen because we believe in God. It requires a commitment to live attentively and practices that foster and support that intention. Such intention necessitates a break with or change in our usual patterns of living. Life in the immanent frame will shape us into inattentive and distracted people, people who can’t or won’t see the gorilla in the crowd of people. It’s got to become more than simply a good idea for it to happen. The break with our normal to create space and time for attending to God is essential. Repetition : repetition of the practices that foster attention to God is equally necessary. The haphazard or occasional will not shape a life attentive to God. Only a commitment to be attentive to God will build the...

http://empireremixed.com/2013/04/11/crisis-of-being/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+empireremixed+%28Empire+Remixed%29 11 04 2013 by Andrew Stephens-Rennie My previous post,  A Lifetime of Habits , arose out of an initial reflection on Peter Enns’ blog post about some recent statements by American pastor Timothy Keller. While those statements were most specifically related to Keller’s views on sexuality, they allude to a much more important question: how do we believe? Most fascinating in Keller’s perspective is the acknowledgment that a shift in belief on issues such as human sexuality would demand a complete dis-assembly of the way in which many evangelicals read the bible and understand scriptural authority. In response, Mike Todd suggested : The metaphor of  disassembly  is unfortunately appropriate. What kinds of things require disassembly? Things welded, or glued, or put together with nails and screws ...