Comments for LineaLanoie's Weblog http://linealanoie.com Life - as I live it Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:48:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Still here by Toni http://linealanoie.com/2010/03/03/still-here/#comment-4303 Toni Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:48:52 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/still-here/#comment-4303 Glad you're OK, Linea. Or as my brother puts it "straining up under the bear". Glad you’re OK, Linea. Or as my brother puts it “straining up under the bear”.

]]> Comment on My head feels fuzzy but I keep plugging away at all this course work. by SharonK http://linealanoie.com/2010/02/19/my-head-feels-fuzzy-but-i-keep-plugging-away-at-all-this-course-work/#comment-4291 SharonK Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:42:29 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/my-head-feels-fuzzy-but-i-keep-plugging-away-at-all-this-course-work/#comment-4291 Keep on, friend....I'm behind you.....pushing....:-) Keep on, friend….I’m behind you…..pushing….:-)

]]> Comment on My head feels fuzzy but I keep plugging away at all this course work. by Dixie http://linealanoie.com/2010/02/19/my-head-feels-fuzzy-but-i-keep-plugging-away-at-all-this-course-work/#comment-4290 Dixie Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:32:39 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/my-head-feels-fuzzy-but-i-keep-plugging-away-at-all-this-course-work/#comment-4290 Glad to hear about the Greek! Take care balancing everything that needs to be done. It will be worth it in the end! Glad to hear about the Greek! Take care balancing everything that needs to be done. It will be worth it in the end!

]]> Comment on A lost boy or just a loser? by Toni http://linealanoie.com/2010/02/02/a-lost-boy-or-just-a-loser/#comment-4287 Toni Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:07:16 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/a-lost-boy-or-just-a-loser/#comment-4287 Both losing and lost. So often salvation (in the here and now) and wisdom are so closely linked. What choices am I going to make today? Will they lead to life, health and opportunity. Will they lead to hurt, shame and restriction. Both losing and lost.

So often salvation (in the here and now) and wisdom are so closely linked. What choices am I going to make today? Will they lead to life, health and opportunity. Will they lead to hurt, shame and restriction.

]]> Comment on Back again by SharonK http://linealanoie.com/2010/01/18/back-again-2/#comment-4265 SharonK Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:36:48 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/back-again-2/#comment-4265 Welcome home! Just hearing you makes me tired....so I'm going to bed soon too. Welcome home! Just hearing you makes me tired….so I’m going to bed soon too.

]]> Comment on So here I am by SharonK http://linealanoie.com/2010/01/09/so-here-i-am/#comment-4261 SharonK Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:59:57 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/so-here-i-am/#comment-4261 Safe travels my friend. Give Chicago a big hug! Safe travels my friend. Give Chicago a big hug!

]]> Comment on So here I am by Marc http://linealanoie.com/2010/01/09/so-here-i-am/#comment-4260 Marc Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:03:48 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/so-here-i-am/#comment-4260 On the way home I was seated next to a small-town farmer type, but he was a real Chatty Charlie: talking about deer hunting and all sorts of farming stuff. Thankfully, he spent the whole flight talking to the lady in the aisle. On the way home I was seated next to a small-town farmer type, but he was a real Chatty Charlie: talking about deer hunting and all sorts of farming stuff. Thankfully, he spent the whole flight talking to the lady in the aisle.

]]> Comment on So here I am by Dixie http://linealanoie.com/2010/01/09/so-here-i-am/#comment-4259 Dixie Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:12:38 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/so-here-i-am/#comment-4259 Hope the rest of the trip goes well and the course too! Hope the rest of the trip goes well and the course too!

]]> Comment on Pushed to efficiency – but no rest in sight by Linea http://linealanoie.com/2010/01/02/pushed-to-efficiency-but-no-rest-in-sight/#comment-4258 Linea Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:02:33 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/pushed-to-efficiency-but-no-rest-in-sight/#comment-4258 I do believe that pastoring a missional church would be a challenge but more because people are reluctant to choose to live in ways that reflect the mission of Christ than for any other reason. I think it would involve a daily and continued discernment of how and where God wants a community of believers to be his church in the world. It involves the community of believers responding as Jesus did to the world - with love and compassion in order to bring about God's peace in the world. So, in a sense it is the defining raison d"etre of the church. I don't understand how being a missional community of believers would prevent growth and allow immorality to run rife. I do believe that pastoring a missional church would be a challenge but more because people are reluctant to choose to live in ways that reflect the mission of Christ than for any other reason. I think it would involve a daily and continued discernment of how and where God wants a community of believers to be his church in the world. It involves the community of believers responding as Jesus did to the world – with love and compassion in order to bring about God’s peace in the world. So, in a sense it is the defining raison d”etre of the church.
I don’t understand how being a missional community of believers would prevent growth and allow immorality to run rife.

]]> Comment on Pushed to efficiency – but no rest in sight by Toni http://linealanoie.com/2010/01/02/pushed-to-efficiency-but-no-rest-in-sight/#comment-4257 Toni Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:19:07 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/pushed-to-efficiency-but-no-rest-in-sight/#comment-4257 Pastoring a missional church is almost a contradiction, and is certainly a challenge. I have serious doubts about missional church, now I've been involved in one for 18 months, and about evangelists as community heads in general. Yes, churches need to be missional, but the missionality needs to be one aspect of church and not the defining and overwhelming focus. Otherwise people do not grow, either as Christians or as family, the backdoor stays wide open and immorality can run rife. Pastoring a missional church is almost a contradiction, and is certainly a challenge. I have serious doubts about missional church, now I’ve been involved in one for 18 months, and about evangelists as community heads in general. Yes, churches need to be missional, but the missionality needs to be one aspect of church and not the defining and overwhelming focus. Otherwise people do not grow, either as Christians or as family, the backdoor stays wide open and immorality can run rife.

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