Articles & thoughts.

Hey friends, I stumbled across some posts from Donald Miller (author of Blue Like Jazz and some other novels) that really challenged and encouraged me:

(1) Having Right Theology Does Not Mean You Know God
This first one is about how our theology can become an idol--the idea that we place our faith in our faith, and not in Jesus himself as the author and perfecter of it if you know what I mean.

(2) Could Your Church Survive If There Were No Sermons?
This second one really struck me as relevant to the environment we'll be living in next year. So many times, we depend on the pastor to spoon feed us enough, and them blame church or the church sermon if we don't get what we want. But church is a community, a living and breathing body. This article prompted me to think of how to play an active role in the body of Christ, not depending on our structure or looking to our leaders to tell us what to do--that's not their job.

Anyway, if you check these out, just let the Lord challenge you. For me it wasn't as much about word-for-word what Don Miller said, because I don't always agree with everything he says, BUT he has some really awesome ideas.

And as a side note, reading the comments about his blog posts were just as encouraging and challenging. Really made me think.

SORRY FOR THIS LONG POST. Love you guys.

-Autumn