A change of pace

Blogging every day is a weird experience. Like anything, some days are rich with ideas and content, while other days there is hardly anything that wets the appetite for comment and discussion. Tuesday mornings are especially tough. Today is Tuesday.
Rather than the normal commentary/discussion starter, I thought I'd take the opportunity just to comment on work itself this summer.

For those that haven't heard the Thursday night spiel, the coffee house/blogging idea is an experiment that I've never seen anywhere before but has been milling around in my head for a long time now. Most people in the world (Christian or not) learn their theology from their life experiences and then 'put' it onto God. Left on our own, that almost always results in some weird ideas about God. Most Christians that attend church and Bible studies learn their theology from their Bibles and then apply it into their lives. That usually results in a bit better thoelogy but sometimes the life application is tough and we struggle with how to deal with certain issues we encounter but aren't dealt with explicitly in Scripture (or from the pulpit on Sunday at least). The blog/coffee house idea was an opportunity to hopefully put those two things together. The early church was successful in part because it had handles in the culture and knew the climate of the world it was speaking into. The church today isn't so much a place that the North American church disagrees with. It simply isn't relevant.

So have we succeeded? The dialogue has started and that's good. But even if it ends at the end of the summer, it shouldn't end. The Bible is full of people that wrestled with God. Church history is full of people that wrestled together with God. If we're to become relevant again, we need to learn to wrestle better - with each other and with God.