When I first moved to Colorado Springs one of the volunteer youth leaders introduced me to Enter the Worship Circle, an album of post-modern acoustic worship music – I loved it! A few weeks after that I had lunch with a friend who had just moved to Denver and he wanted to introduce me to some musician friends of his that were set up close to my office. Turns out his friends were Ben and Robin Pasley of 100 Portraits, the people heading up Enter the Worship Circle.
While I wasn’t in the “Springs” long enough to really get to know Ben and Robin in person, I have gotten to know them through the years through their music, writings, videos and most recently through ChurchThink.
ChurchThink is Ben’s blog where he engages ideas about the people of God though sharing his personal studies/revelations in articles and then a discussion based podcast.
Here are a few excerpts from one of his articles/podcasts
Try and win people to Christ through the dissemination of correct
thinking and what do you get? A bunch of people fighting and killing
each other over what is really right in the name of the God.Try to win people to Christ through fancy events and amazement and
what will you get? A group of folks so obsessed with public events and
the vibration of experience that relationships are blindly burned and
left on the highway to the next “revival.”Try to win people to Christ through a message of justice and social
reform and what do you get? Folks who see better and know better than
everyone else, who constantly apologize for God and his people, and
divide the world into “for us” and “against us” on the fields of their
cause.BUT…
And another:
If you go and tell somebody that the end game of your Christian walk is to believe the right thing and to go to a building – then I’d have to say there’s less than something perfectly romantic and attractive about that.
And Another:
… asking the same old tired questions, you know, “where do you go to church?” Good Lord, are you kidding me? Are you still doing that? Is that the end game for you – is going to this place where people are seated in a building while some body is teaching?
There are so many tasks we men put on our “to do” lists, but there is one that should trump that list: To be knowing God, to chase after Him with more abandon than we chase after carreer, stuff, fun, or even the girl.
This blog/Podcast (blog-cast?) is a tool that should be added to your arsenal as you seek to grow in relationship with God and in the family of God.
I encourage you to be challenged at www.churchthink.com.