Lest Blood Be Shed

Your Linguistic Profile:

80% General American English

5% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

You May Be a Bit Schizotypal ...

A bit odd and socially isolated. You couldn't care less of what others think. And some of your beliefs are a little weird. Like that time you thought you were Jesus.

It's a new month! Last month the hits to this blog riveled those in January with 73569 hits to the site and 478080 Kbytes served up to the general public in March. There were 434 unique search strings used to get to my site and they are pretty good this time around. I'm going to exclude most of them so my blog can stay PG-13 as well as on topic. MSN is still sending people my way for no apparent reason but I'm sure everyone could have guessed that. The big winner this month for search strings resulting in a hit to my site is "openwrt" with 264 seperate searches on that string bringing people to the site.

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This church is in transition. It has been a little bit over a year since we last had a called pastor and much within this church has changed. We are discovering who we, as the people of God, truly are and how we are called into relationship with each other and all of creation. We have been filled with the Easter promise of new life in Christ. But just as the disciples were fearful of the outside world and had barred the door, so to, it seems with many Christian churches they have closed themselves off. Christ has come to visit us and is breathing the Spirit upon us so that we may be Christ's faithful disciples, Christ's ecclesia. But what does it mean to be Christ's church in the world?

Many people in today's world find ecclesiology to be a secondary matter. It is a boring and often times irksome topic. For many this troubling concept of ecclesiology stems from the perception that it is merely a subject of "politics of organization and management" of the church and has no real impact on true Christian life and faith. If that's what is meant by ecclesiology then truly the matter would be secondary but to be the people of God, to be the ecclesia of Christ is a far different matter all together and has little to do with the politics of organization and management of the church.

The demotion of ecclesiology in many modern church theologies has stemmed from several deep-seated problems that are found within society and the church. These problems which I am sharing with your today are talked about in great detail in a book by Daniel Migliore, a professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, and I will only be briefly outlining them here.