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The weather guy on TV said this was the latest measurable snow since 1912!!!!!

yesterday (on Becca’s b’day) we went to the national mall because it was the beginning of the Cherry Blosom Festival…

one cool thing that we saw were the scores and scores of kites…

spring brings many things…

buds on trees

birds that sing

warmer days

sitting on the sidewalk chairs at greenberrys instead of being inside…

and too much spring season work to do

that’s why I’m not bloggin much, nor even emailing as usual…

too busy is not good… must slow the pace down and appreciate those things I listed above…

the great banquet table mentioned in the Bible…. will it be a square? will it be round? a rectangle? well it will be in heaven so, shape becomes a non-issue… will we use our fork in our right hand prongs up like Americans? left hand prongs down like the Brits? left hand with prongs up like Hungarians? It will not matter… we will just be so glad to be there…

here on earth the worldwide body of Christ is all part of one, the Church… we don’t all speak the same language, worship the same, and even those of us who speak the same language have a diversity of style and jargon that we are not always quite sure what is going on… but that’s okay… we sit at the table because of the Grace of Jesus… if there is a head to this table, He is sitting there…

I’m just glad to be invited, aren’t you?

At a missions conference recently, I was able to hear a speaker who really seemed to understand postmodern folks (like me?).
“A Message from America’s Future”

The ’emerging generation’ is postmodern (PM) in thought.

There is no return… [hense, we are where we are and we will not go back to modernism]

from the middle ages to the enlightenment
authority was seen in the person [Pope] and changed to knowledge [as authority]

[NOW] the new basis of authority is what I deem so

the European Church bought into values of the enlightenment…

WWI and WWII showed the failure of modernism and the church which emphasized reason was off track and had failed, thus the church died in the UK and elsewhr in Europe

4 tenants of PM

1. rejection of absolute truth

no one really believes this… There is plenty of wrong and everybody knows it… It really is a rejection of the claim of having absolute truth – especially against the church… RESULT: We need to learn to listen… it’s not about me being right, it’s about Jesus being right for Me… its the church more than the Gospel that PM mocks… we don’t give up on truth, we need to be humble to know we do not have a corner on it

2. anti expectation, sorry, I didn’t get this

3. cynicism, hopelessness, pessimism

modernism failed, PMs become anti optimistic

PM began in EUR after WWII, WHY? WWI AND WWII shwd modernism failed …

being not just talking

show Jesus is real

4. rejection of objective and emphasizing of subjective

we cannot explain everything, we must emrace mystical things and realize that we cannot answer all questions, show them how to love Jesus not just the truth about him

The speaker was Alan Waldecker.

This blog is a place for posting about EE07.

Team is selected!

Itinerary is in the works!

Prayer letters are distrbuted!