Comments on: Is the Margin the Center? http://postchristianblog.com/blog/473 Blog Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:58:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dena Brehm http://postchristianblog.com/blog/473#comment-662 Dena Brehm Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:39:18 +0000 http://postchristianblog.com/?p=473#comment-662 I heard this the other day: "If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room." Just sayin'. I heard this the other day: “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.”

Just sayin’.

]]> By: Andy http://postchristianblog.com/blog/473#comment-640 Andy Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:43:49 +0000 http://postchristianblog.com/?p=473#comment-640 Great post Tim, You most certainly hit the nail on the head with this post. I think I read somewhere that the "Christian" Church is losing thousands of it's membership yearly! I have no doubt in my mind that what you write here is the reason for much of the loss. I think folks are beginning to see that the church that they have been so faithful to has been, and is much what it was at the time Jesus walked 2000 years ago, in my view not much has changed. Great post Tim, You most certainly hit the nail on the head with this post. I think I read somewhere that the “Christian” Church is losing thousands of it’s membership yearly! I have no doubt in my mind that what you write here is the reason for much of the loss. I think folks are beginning to see that the church that they have been so faithful to has been, and is much what it was at the time Jesus walked 2000 years ago, in my view not much has changed.

]]> By: Alicia Hayden http://postchristianblog.com/blog/473#comment-638 Alicia Hayden Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:51:25 +0000 http://postchristianblog.com/?p=473#comment-638 The thing I love about Jesus was that He was "classless". Those who had were no better than those who didn't have anything. He was just there to heal....it didn't matter what margins they were in... Alicia The thing I love about Jesus was that He was “classless”. Those who had were no better than those who didn’t have anything. He was just there to heal….it didn’t matter what margins they were in…

Alicia

]]> By: Tom Crenshaw http://postchristianblog.com/blog/473#comment-635 Tom Crenshaw Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:02:09 +0000 http://postchristianblog.com/?p=473#comment-635 Tim, great post. One mankind has been debating thousands of years... "who holds the power"? Ultimately, all power resides in the One, in the name of "Christ" and we fool ourselves with any other thought (I think someone once said that WE could do works as great as Jesus, if not greater... but how dare we think he meant us!). Build as lavish a roof and ministry as necessary to do his work, but do his work for ALL, even as he embraced all. I would like to see more institutions proclaiming to follow Christ working in the 'field'; embracing the homeless, hugging the sick, feeding the poor. So many churches do just this, but not enough. What would Jesus do? He'd stand before us again and let us crucify him, again. I would go so far as to say he DOES stand in our midst now, and we crucify him daily by passing him by because we do not recognize his face. What can I do? I can be the change I seek. I'm learning to do this, be this change. My father once told me, "do your job and don't complain that someone else isn't doing theirs." I hold to this. Pray I can be more effective in my job, and I will pray for you, in kind. Peace brother! Tim, great post. One mankind has been debating thousands of years… “who holds the power”?

Ultimately, all power resides in the One, in the name of “Christ” and we fool ourselves with any other thought (I think someone once said that WE could do works as great as Jesus, if not greater… but how dare we think he meant us!).

Build as lavish a roof and ministry as necessary to do his work, but do his work for ALL, even as he embraced all. I would like to see more institutions proclaiming to follow Christ working in the ‘field’; embracing the homeless, hugging the sick, feeding the poor. So many churches do just this, but not enough.

What would Jesus do? He’d stand before us again and let us crucify him, again. I would go so far as to say he DOES stand in our midst now, and we crucify him daily by passing him by because we do not recognize his face.

What can I do? I can be the change I seek. I’m learning to do this, be this change. My father once told me, “do your job and don’t complain that someone else isn’t doing theirs.” I hold to this. Pray I can be more effective in my job, and I will pray for you, in kind.

Peace brother!

]]> By: timking http://postchristianblog.com/blog/473#comment-633 timking Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:30:19 +0000 http://postchristianblog.com/?p=473#comment-633 Gaby, thanks for the tip. If you could -- since dollars and time to read are scarce these days -- give us a little bit of a feel for what Carter is saying. Thanks -- blessings Gaby, thanks for the tip. If you could — since dollars and time to read are scarce these days — give us a little bit of a feel for what Carter is saying.

Thanks — blessings

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