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Monthly Archives: February 2014
What a great place for coffee
Haeundae Beach in Busan…
… got to have coffee (Starbucks across the street) on the beach this morning. Busan is a cool city to ride a cab through. Storm and Chinese smog are gone and the blue sky and sunshine were most welcome. Next… Daegu for a couple of hours … Sweet Anna wanted me to get to ride the fast train!
Filed under photos along the way
Gumi, Korea
Downtown Gumi, Korea from the train station.
Just a brief check in… finding internet is a bit of a challenge. But am having a fruitful time.
Filed under photos along the way, travel notes
Niebuhr on Christ & Culture
Here’s my thoughts (what I took away at the end)…
The church is a broad and deep body of people that transcends time and space, it has no geographical or time boundaries. It is like the broad and deep Pacific ocean is a body of water… mostly there are no individual drops. I am not describing some kind of monism. I am thinking of our oneness in and with Christ and one another (John 17?).
To take this drop thing too far, I would say this… There are no individual drops in the ocean excepts for those created by the surface water being battered by storms. What does this tell us about being in the deep with God and one another? The deeper we are the safer we are?
Niebuhr writes: “Our decisions must be made in the present moment-but in the presence of historical beings (this book is all about those beings) whose history has been made sacred by the historical, remembered actions of the one who inhabits eternity.”
From all this I think: We learn to look back to help up see now and hope for the future. But as usual, don’t look back with regret, nor now in fear, but forward with hope in God. (This, I would propose, is a healthy existential position that is based of a hopeful eschatology.)
