class picture
Monday, September 29, 2008
We took some class pictures the other day. I liked this one.
from back:
Dana, Rachel, Rolanda
Byron, David, Caleb, Janelle
Vincent, Levi, Glenda
Charity, Katrina, Abigail
ramblings: question 2: how do “relationship with God” and “social justice/enviromentalism/KOG here now/New Creation/NT Wright fit together?
Sunday, September 28, 2008
answer: OF COURSE God wants a private relationship with humans. But of course he also wants them to be living the life he intended for them right here now, and not messing up the earth, and caring for the poor, etc. But why are those things incompatible with a private relationship with God? THEY ARE NOT. They are perfectly compatible.
So why not have a pietist (private experience with God), Anabaptist (community of believers), environmentalist (cares about the created world), missionary (has a deep compassion for fellow humans and believes that the gospel is for them), social justice (wants to change the systems that are creating inequities for the poor throughout the world) oriented person?
Why do we think these things are mutually exclusive?
But if I try to be a pietist Anabaptist environmentalist missionary-minded socially-just person–how can I possibly keep all those things in focus at once? It seems that this is impossible, that one of them dominates and tries to shut out or exclude the other ones, that each of these by itself would like to be IN CHARGE of my worldview. Why?
yes, it’s going well
Thursday, September 25, 2008
I haven’t time or energy to write much, but I wanted to say that I am loving school this year. Really, I am having way too much fun!
I will post some class pictures soon.
Mr. Hershberger