Press Release:
It seems that Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren and Tony Jones are catching some heat for meeting with Jews. People are reading a press release and making it a doctrinal statement. Because they are meeting, suddenly they are giving up on Jesus. Interesting.
In the past month I've met with a lot of people. I've shared a meal with unitarians, I've had coffee with a lesbian. I've hung out with people who are not christians. I've met with groups and individuals from a dozen or more denominations, including catholics. I've met with drug users and a sex addict.
what does that say about me?
It seems that Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren and Tony Jones are catching some heat for meeting with Jews. People are reading a press release and making it a doctrinal statement. Because they are meeting, suddenly they are giving up on Jesus. Interesting.
In the past month I've met with a lot of people. I've shared a meal with unitarians, I've had coffee with a lesbian. I've hung out with people who are not christians. I've met with groups and individuals from a dozen or more denominations, including catholics. I've met with drug users and a sex addict.
what does that say about me?
posted by mark at
12:51 PM
13 Comments:
"including catholics" ?! Hmmmm ;)
why did you post this?
I posted this because it seems that there are a lot of people jumping to conclusions about some friends of mine and I'm frustrated.
I have friends from a variety of traditional backgrounds in church, with a variety of lifestyles and a variety of issues they deal with.
My list is a composite of all of these friends.
I'm not gay. But I have guy friends.
I'm not catholic. But I have a lot of catholic friends.
There are folks who are upset that I have these friends.
This is my post to say, I stand with my friends, in spite of people who judgement us.
it sounds like they are narrow minded folks...i have all of these kinds of friends and more... I know drug dealers, pimps, hoes, bitches, libs, dems, Repubs, neo-cons, jews, buddhists, secular humanists, agnostics, Muslims, athesists, Ecks (Eckankar), Catholics, Protestants (They are the worst), blacks, negros, whitey's, honkies, asians, euro's, afriancs, browns, yellows, and emergents (they are worse than the protestants - very annoying), surfers, hipsters, poppers, groovies, hippies (annoying as well), canucks, mexicans (they are not all dirty), priests, pastors, ministers, rabbis, imans, reverednds, ministers, snake handlers, bull fighters, wrestlers, race car drivers, lawyers, doctors, professors, administrtors, construction workers, indians, policemen, village people, and small boys...
I'm with you dude, it's cool have such a diverse group of friends and those who look down upon it are jealous and boring
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why do you delete commments?
god bless!
-Jason
I've been getting a lot of folks like yourself on my site who post stupid things. I deleted the last post because it contained racial slurs.
i think that the ability? (is that the right word?) to have relationship with a diversity of people indicates a growth in and likeness to Christ. it appears tha it's gone without saying, but i'm going to in case there's any doubt - Christ Himself shared meals with and engaged those who were deemed "unlovely, unworthy outcasts, different, not to be associated-with, SINNERS (thank goodness!), those who believed differently than Him." He broke all the rules of convention and gave people hope of having not only a right relationship with God, but with others as well, including those we would consider our adversaries.
i have friends that even a few years ago, i wouldn't have ever dreamt of sharing relationships with. they probably think the same thing of ME.
sorry about my grammar on my post. what a nut. it's too late on a friday night for me to be thinking about stuff like this. :-)
I have been in the "arenas" where some heat has occurred. I believe that these people are really trying to grasp what is going on ~ which is a great thing. HOWEVER at times, it is slamming.
If we stand up though and continue to dialogue, individuals will see the heart / passion and the ministry taking place.
A voice standing for them ...
lame-o blog you have here dude
It says good things about you,
you non-hypocrite, you.
chris,
thanks for having a legitamate website.
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