I thought i should let you know what I’m up to, so you’re not worried about my long upcoming online absence. Me and two of my close friends, Jordan and Michael, have conspired together to form a study group, and our first project, long in the making, is a Mennofesto (inspired by another friend, the honorable Peter Goertzen). The Mennofesto is a personal declaration of things we feel are worth talking about. How I’m going to do it: I’m going to write a story, informally styled, that tells the story of the world as I see it, beginning with God in the middle of nothing, continuing on up through the Biblical account of history, spending a good deal of time on the life and work of Jesus, touching on the key points of early Christianity, and skimming over the 2 millenia of church history until I come to me at Pilgrim Christian Fellowship. I will make extensive use of footnotes, attempting to articulate in the footnotes my position on “important” issues as the story alludes to them. I am hoping to be all done w/ this monumental work by September 20th, so my co-mennofesters will have sufficient time to review it before the hash session on sep. 30. Here’s the first paragraph:
The first first thing in the world was God. Well, really, I guess he wasn’t in the world, ’cause at that time there was no world. I guess he was just the first, first thing in the whole universe. Well, I guess he wasn’t the first thing in the universe either, because he was before the universe. So, the first first thing in anything, and in nothing, was God.
God was this living being, and he was totally everything. I mean that! Since there wasn’t anything besides him, not even space, he was it. He was always there, too, and didn’t have a beginning. By that I mean he wasn’t born like a person. He didn’t grow up, or mature, or get smarter, or get old, or anything like that. He was just there, and was God.
