becoming

Sometimes, we fall in love on mission trips even though we know we’ll break up when we get back.

Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend’s prayer because she’s asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.

Sometimes, you think, “I wish I had a t-shirt that said ‘I direct deposit my tithe’ so people wouldn’t judge me.”

Sometimes, the stuff that comes with faith is funny.

This is that stuff.

Jonathan Acuff’s Stuff Christians Like is your field guide to all things Christian. Like a satirical grenade, Acuff brings us the humor and honesty that galvanized 730,000 online readers from 209 countries in a new portable version. Welcome to the funny side of faith.

我猜想，告訴自己會眾「ＸＸ是異端」，主要用意不是要教導會眾教義（我看到教會的講台大部份只教導生活實踐，不太教導基要教義的），而是要會眾不要去加入 他們。所以台灣的學生不太有與異端接觸的機會，因為牧者都把自己的羊保護得緊。這似乎無可厚非，但是我想這有很多後遺症。真的異端當然要避開，但是如果那 不是異端，只是別的傳統時，這樣教導是在建立門戶派系吧！

記得一個牧者說過，異端，都是「正統」教會欠下真理的債。

[link: 邱老師網誌]

好書推介：

1. Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy
   
2. Roger Olson, How to Be Evangelical without Being Conservative
3. Ben Quash, and Michael Ward (eds.), Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe

Yes, it is funny. But it is also seriously true to describe the way we worship.