soooo....pretty big news...

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it's pretty amazing big news!!!

so i realized that i basically never post anything here.  So here I am proving myself wrong.

And for more on the thoughts wondering through my head, check out my other site (it's pretty much the only one that i really do anything with...)

check it out!  There's a new tune to download from twentyeightdays!

I made it on my laptop in my appartment, so please listen with that in your ears (that and i just plain suck at mixing...)

so anyway...there's a new song.

The whole idea behind it is, how do we live and be (and become) who we are in the kingdom of God?  It can't be done alone.  You can't find your voice, your part of the dream alone.  We're all in it together, and it's hard sometimes, and only in the togetherness do we actually get anywhere.

So yah, go listen.  And then let me know what you think!

So I finished Fight Club, the book, not the movie.  Deffinately a good read...very nihilistic.  But still very good.  Here's one of my favorite parts...

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't.  And we're just learing this fact... (p166)

Interesting worldview, Nihilism...we're all nothing.  We don't matter.  If there is a God he or she doesn't care about us.

I like the worldview I see in Jesus better...here it is in the words of Brian McLaren:

God was neither absent and outside the universe nor trapped inside it. Rather, God was connected to the universe, present with it, and intimately involved in it. So the universe was less like a machine and more like a family, less like a mechanism and more like a community. The very word kingdom suggests as much: kings are relationally involved in their kingdoms. They are present, active, participatory, and engaged. They aren't simply a part of the kingdom - one part among many - but neither are they apart from it.
(The Secret Message of Jesus p52-3)

Not that that quote answers any lingering questions i had about nihilism, but rather brings up new ones. If I function from the later worldview, how do i interact, communicate, and invite those in the former into the kingdom of God?

Thoughts?

"The emerging Church will not choose up sides in such a fashion. Rather, it will affirm what is valuable in each emphasis, bringing together the most helpful of the old and the best of the new, blending the dynamic of a personal Gospel with the compassion of social concern."

Osborne, Larson, The Emerging Church (1970), p10