Such a trivial level that we think we have heard it all. I've had leadership say as much. What about Teaching that reminds us every week we have a lifetime of study and learning and we still won't learn it all? Reminds me i have much to more to know and grow into? I remember leading a group in Charlottetown about ten-year ago and a life long church leader at first was very very frustrated and a bit angry. Becuse he was struggling with the material and reading assignments. I did not know why. Then about five nights in he said that he had never heard much of this stuff (i was teaching Kingdom themes) before. He said i read a paragraph and it is so profound that i have to read it over three or four times. It turns out the anger was he was angry he had never been taught this stuff before, and wondered how come at 65 he has not encountered so much of this teaching,and he could have been digging more in these themes. He was convinced at 65, that doing more than the average church member, he had a good handle on most things. Then he learned themes he did not know existed. I said i dont know... but we have a lifetime to study and still don't know it all. I said let it wash over you.... just be exposed.
I love it when secularists talk to me like they have the church and theology all figured out. Yes.... it happens weekly to me. They dont ask my opinion, they talk to me to correct me based on their assumptions... they trully do feel they have a good handle on what faith people think. I dont have conversations there. Every week a church should be taken deep enough in some aspect of teaching they can't say "i heard it all before." A good shock as to what they don't know is required very regularly.... or we forget we have something to aspire to.... for a lifetime.
My 2 cents.
"Even kids at a pretty early age get bored if they are not exposed to maybe things they can't completely apprehend, or things that are in some way held out for them something else to attain.
But when it is the drivil, and trivia, and game playing that becomes the focus of your activity…. What i see happening among adults with boredom and passing through the back door. Oh they're prepared for that as children. Because that sort of thin engagement i think ultimately is not going to, first of all, disciple anyone, and probably won't hold their attention into highschool and beyond.
- Paul Axton
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