tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post4683982101848243563..comments2023-11-10T09:15:40.084-08:00Comments on The Friends of Jake: Hopes for GC77 (GC2012)Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post-54667738421422741212012-07-05T08:34:09.555-07:002012-07-05T08:34:09.555-07:00I second JCF's comment.
The church does have ...I second JCF's comment.<br /><br />The church does have to get its house in order, but that order is a means and not an end.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post-60634904461353451012012-07-04T23:27:24.678-07:002012-07-04T23:27:24.678-07:00I'm not going to inflict you w/ anymore "...I'm not going to inflict you w/ anymore "Titanic deckchairs" analogies, as I really don't believe TEC is sinking.<br /><br />But I do wonder if all the "process talk" (budgets, restructuring and the like) are a bit, um, "auto-erotic" (there's an M word I'm not using). Or more politely, navel-gazing.<br /><br />I just read President (HouseDep) Bonnie Anderson describe the past three years as a <b>"bruising triennium"</b>. No disrespect to Bonnie, but I can't help thinking of the teen lesbian couple murdered in Texas. Poor people thrown into (essentially) debtors' prison in Alabama. Women who may have to resort to coat-hangers in Mississippi. And victims of war EVERYWHERE.<br /><br />In short, there's real "bruising" happening. It needs real medicine AND the Balm of Christ.<br /><br />I don't want to see TEC get too wrapped up in its own stuff, when the world Christ came to save is out there. As ever.JCFnoreply@blogger.com