Comments on: Re-Practicing Christianity http://www.3isenough.org/2008/11/re-practicing-christianity/ Following Jesus for the Sake of Others Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:58:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: todd http://www.3isenough.org/2008/11/re-practicing-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-156 todd Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:50:21 +0000 http://www.3isenough.org/?p=99#comment-156 Thanks Mara--authentic friendships within the natural structures of our life can be just what you hope! Todd Thanks Mara–authentic friendships within the natural structures of our life can be just what you hope!

Todd

]]> By: Mara Ouverson http://www.3isenough.org/2008/11/re-practicing-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Mara Ouverson Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:31:15 +0000 http://www.3isenough.org/?p=99#comment-155 Dan, a pastor I love, said that a well- known pastor guy asked him if he had any friends. Dan replied to the well known guy "No." Well-known guy said, "Hmm. Me either" and walked away. Dan told that to a group of other pastors and we all kind of went, "Me neither!" That seems wrong to me. The Three Is Enough idea may just be my best effort to stave off that fate. (No Friends...that can't be!) Now I am working with two believers who have agreed to help me, and who have asked me to help them, to have a relationship that is truely different from any we've forged before. We are acting like the building blocks of living stone that is written about in I Peter. Kingdom Friendships ARE DIFFERENT from the ones the world has told us we need to have. Todd talks about the "Golden Triangle" of relationship. Add another person into the mix and you get a "Golden Pyramid." When we got those Kingdom friendships going we realized that we have something to offer others outside of the group! And it is fully attached to my "real" life, not my "churchianity" life. Dan, a pastor I love, said that a well- known pastor guy asked him if he had any friends. Dan replied to the well known guy “No.” Well-known guy said, “Hmm. Me either” and walked away.

Dan told that to a group of other pastors and we all kind of went, “Me neither!” That seems wrong to me. The Three Is Enough idea may just be my best effort to stave off that fate. (No Friends…that can’t be!)

Now I am working with two believers who have agreed to help me, and who have asked me to help them, to have a relationship that is truely different from any we’ve forged before. We are acting like the building blocks of living stone that is written about in I Peter. Kingdom Friendships ARE DIFFERENT from the ones the world has told us we need to have. Todd talks about the “Golden Triangle” of relationship. Add another person into the mix and you get a “Golden Pyramid.”

When we got those Kingdom friendships going we realized that we have something to offer others outside of the group! And it is fully attached to my “real” life, not my “churchianity” life.

]]> By: Fraser Brooks http://www.3isenough.org/2008/11/re-practicing-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Fraser Brooks Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:09:54 +0000 http://www.3isenough.org/?p=99#comment-151 I've been reading Tom Wright's book Simply Christian for Dan Wilt's Essentials Blue course that a bunch of the guys at my church are doing and it's the first time I've heard the point that we won't be off to some marble-columned, fairy castle in the sky when we die. Wright's point is that God's Kingdom will be here on Earth - a renewed and redeemed Earth just the way God originally intended. Even now God's Kingdom is present in every one of us who loves and follows Jesus through the gift of the Holy Spirit. Everywhere we go, we take God's Kingdom with us. That should really make us think carefully about how we act... I’ve been reading Tom Wright’s book Simply Christian for Dan Wilt’s Essentials Blue course that a bunch of the guys at my church are doing and it’s the first time I’ve heard the point that we won’t be off to some marble-columned, fairy castle in the sky when we die. Wright’s point is that God’s Kingdom will be here on Earth – a renewed and redeemed Earth just the way God originally intended. Even now God’s Kingdom is present in every one of us who loves and follows Jesus through the gift of the Holy Spirit. Everywhere we go, we take God’s Kingdom with us.

That should really make us think carefully about how we act…

]]> By: Todd Hunter http://www.3isenough.org/2008/11/re-practicing-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Todd Hunter Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:22:26 +0000 http://www.3isenough.org/?p=99#comment-137 Thanks Larry! I know who Wayne is, bit I have not read the book--thanks for the tip. Todd Thanks Larry!

I know who Wayne is, bit I have not read the book–thanks for the tip.

Todd

]]> By: Larry http://www.3isenough.org/2008/11/re-practicing-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Larry Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:54:50 +0000 http://www.3isenough.org/?p=99#comment-136 great stuff Todd. Been on a journey myself. looking at authentic ways to relate to others. have you read the book AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIPS discovering the lost art of "one anothering" by Wayne Jacobsen & Clay Jacobsen- http://lifestream.org/ great book and could be a great source for the groups. Larry great stuff Todd. Been on a journey myself. looking at authentic ways to relate to others. have you read the book AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIPS discovering the lost art of “one anothering” by Wayne Jacobsen & Clay Jacobsen- http://lifestream.org/ great book and could be a great source for the groups.

Larry

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