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so... I was getting set to blog about my internal discomfort recently. I've been processing yesterday, last night...
I think I do too much ego surfing.
There I said it. I admitted it. It's not like you've never googled your name before. I'm not the only one...
Okay, but still, there's no justification.
So- could getting a little too excited about seeing my name in print be affecting me spiritually? Could what affects me spiritually have an impact on my community?
yes.
Anyway, I was gearing up to give up a couple of things this week (my own little mini-Lent), one of them being the aforementioned ego surphing, when I read an article on Next Wave and came across this paragraph:
"One of the things that concerns me about Emergent is that some of us are doing the same thing our parents did by letting culture dictate to us what the church should be or, almost worse, we blindly try to clone other people's numerically successful answers. We are reacting to MTV (a few years behind, I'd like to add... we're doing Unplugged sets when I haven't seen one of those on MTV in years). We are reacting to postmodernism. We are reacting to Purpose-Driven methodology. We are reacting to Bob Hyatt and Eutychus Bailey ;-) We are reacting to a million different things instead of walking with our Master.
Aye Carumba!
I been sabotaged. :) I no longer have to go looking for it... it comes looking for me.
(I think this is the view Amy gets of me too much...)
Jesus, this week I need to tip the scales back into balance. I need to be more about You than about anything else, especially myself. Sometimes I feel like a car in need of an aligment- If I look away for just a minute, I find I'm veering of course. Help me...
I think I do too much ego surfing.
There I said it. I admitted it. It's not like you've never googled your name before. I'm not the only one...
Okay, but still, there's no justification.
So- could getting a little too excited about seeing my name in print be affecting me spiritually? Could what affects me spiritually have an impact on my community?
yes.
Anyway, I was gearing up to give up a couple of things this week (my own little mini-Lent), one of them being the aforementioned ego surphing, when I read an article on Next Wave and came across this paragraph:
"One of the things that concerns me about Emergent is that some of us are doing the same thing our parents did by letting culture dictate to us what the church should be or, almost worse, we blindly try to clone other people's numerically successful answers. We are reacting to MTV (a few years behind, I'd like to add... we're doing Unplugged sets when I haven't seen one of those on MTV in years). We are reacting to postmodernism. We are reacting to Purpose-Driven methodology. We are reacting to Bob Hyatt and Eutychus Bailey ;-) We are reacting to a million different things instead of walking with our Master.
Aye Carumba!
I been sabotaged. :) I no longer have to go looking for it... it comes looking for me.
(I think this is the view Amy gets of me too much...)
Jesus, this week I need to tip the scales back into balance. I need to be more about You than about anything else, especially myself. Sometimes I feel like a car in need of an aligment- If I look away for just a minute, I find I'm veering of course. Help me...
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by the way... all you armchair therapists out there should take note of all the sneaky ego grandisement in this post supposedly about getting back to a place of a little more humilty and call me on it :)
We live in an age in which we're not only conscious of ourselves individually, we're conscious of ourselves as a society. And instead of using that self-consciousness to better ourselves, we use it to tell ourselves we're better, that many of us are important. Hence, we're already talking about sainthood for John Paul II. Hence, we're listening to ourselves on the radio. We're stamping our own perspective on a history that hasn't even been written. It's no surprise that individually, we all get caught up in it. Prior generations were not "fortunate" enough to put their own spin on themselves. We are, and we do it like crazy. Sure, generations before us had people who wrote, who tried to have some control over their own historical relevance. But we get to do it on such a massive scale. We're desperate to be seen as an important and significant generation.
I hopped over to Dallas' article. Good article and oddly in line with where I think God is taking all of us. Interestly, the part of next Sunday that I'm having a hard time with is petitioning God. Right now, it's all about Him. But, I know that we need to ask Him, "What's Next?"
--starla
Keep on keeping on man. Don't give up and go with God.
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