Daily Archives: November 16, 2007

And now for something completely different!

Posted by on November 16, 2007 8 comments

Alright, I know you guys are all expecting some big theological post about how I’m converting to Catholicism or about how Catholicism is actually the antichrist, but those will have to wait.  Right now I have something far more important to say.

Tim Kring, if you kill off H.R.G. (a.k.a. Noah Bennett), so help me Jesus I will hunt you down and exact my revenge with ruthless commitment and reckless abondon.  I will turn all my unbridled focus towards gaining the fullest retribution possible should this terrible event occur.  Consider yourself warned.

I am as serious as a heart attack here people.  If H.R.G. dies I’m going to fly into a rage and never watch Heroes again.  Jack Coleman, I love you and hope you get to act on Heroes for a hundred years.  Should you ever have need I will rise up and do your bidding.

The “Gathered” Church vs. the “Given” Church

Posted by on November 16, 2007 6 comments

“The Believers Church tradition…has been based on the concept of a ‘gathered’ church as opposed to a ‘given’ church.  Being gathered intends to be dynamic and voluntary, while being given speaks of the church as established and settled in its accumulated order, formalized wisdom, and standardized sacramental practices.  Being gathered highlights the responsiveness of faith in relation to the ongoing work of God’s gracious Spirit; being given easily degenerates into merely the inevitability of institutional legitimacy and dominance.”

–Barry Callen, Radical Christianity: The Believers Church Tradition in Christianity’s History and Future (Nappanee, IN: Evangel Publishing, 1999), 121.

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