And what about our schools shall we join the private schools and state schools together have them in the same building too? or GP’s and hospitals shall we put them all in the same building and join the hospitals into one? Well how far do we want to go? If we are going to take this man seriously we should consider other areas of our society they could benefit from pooling their money together and being in one building.
The name of my blog fits so nicely as a response to Martin Van Beynen's article. He gets a merit for his madness. He proposes that churches (Christians) not rebuild their facilities but pool all their money together and build an all-in-one building they share. If you read this article you can soon see he is just stirring people up, starting with insulting churches and then moving on to what he proposes they should do. We'll just put all the religious things we like in one building and walk into each like a mall store. So God is just to be another consumer product?
1 comments:
Since God is soooo gig, and we are not, I'm comfortable with a wide range of variety in faith expressions within the Church.
Not so sure how one gets unity within that diversity though. What with the all too human predilection to assuming superiority of one's own point of view! Me is right, you is wrong. Often reading behind the wrong is "Your salvation is in doubt, and you're quite possibly going to hell"!
Having said that, it does seem some Theologies back themselves into a corner. If, for instance, you believe the Gifts of the Spirit have ceased with the last of the Apostles, you haven't really got many options as to how you understand the Charismatic Gifts manifesting amongst professing Christians (most of them involving Satanic Deception). Which then makes it hard to participate in a one-stop-fits-all church!
Jonno C.
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