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Bathtub Soteriology Every night, in order to cajole our children into the bathtub, I have to initiate "The Amazing Race" beckoning everyone to drop everything they are doing and race up the stairs to get into the tub. Most nights I end up carrying Mary Kathryn up the stairs in an effort to try to outrun the undefeated champion of The Amazing Race, David. Anyhow, last night as I was carrying Mary Kathryn (2) up the stairs she said a curious and interesting thing to me. She said, "Daddy I broke God's law today." I said, "How?" She responded, "I had anger in my heart." Then she volunteered something really interesting. "Jesus left my heart." Now understand, Tiffani and I aren't the kind of parents who are trying to get our children to pray a formula prayer of salvation to make us feel better about their eternal destiny. Nor are we, I hope, inculcating the deep inferiority complex that comes from a behavioral based conditional love and approval. We are pretty self aware of this pervasive tendency in this performance age in which we live.
They are all 3 baptized and we are leading them in a daily way of discipleship, but salvation is a mystery--like the wind--Jesus says. Our primary mode of discipleship is simple story-telling. My point in saying this is to acknowledge that Mary Kathryn is doing her own math with this assertion. It's not parental systematic theology. "Daddy, I broke God's law today. . . . I had anger in my heart. . . . Jesus left my heart." So as I put her in the water I suggested to her that she tell God she was sorry and I led her in a short prayer. Then she volunteered this, "Daddy, Jesus is back." So in the spirit of my friend, Nolan Donald, one of the 8 persons world-wide who read my blog, I pose the following question: What's that about?
Labels: theology
posted by John David Walt | at 5/27/2005 07:57:00 AM | 9 comments
Thursday, May 26, 2005
would the real macvangelist please stand up my man posted by John David Walt | at 5/26/2005 11:02:00 PM | 2 comments
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
macintosh evagelist You may not know I am a Macintosh user. I have a g4 powerbook 15' screen and am thinking of going down to a 12" screen. So I was in Starbucks yesterday trying to do some writing when I saw a young woman who had a 12" power book. I kept looking over my shoulder to get a look at it. O.K. I was gawking. I thought she thought I was trying to get a look at her, so I walked over and asked her if I could take a look "under the hood." She obliged. I asked her a series of questions only a Mac user could understand. She offered, "I made the switch to Mac about a year ago and I could never go back." Wow! I feel the same way. It was like she was witnessing to me. . . . . and the Spirit was testifying with my spirit. I just thought it was amazing that she was talking about a computer like one might talk about Jesus. What is that about Macintosh that inspires this kind of loyalty and love? posted by John David Walt | at 5/25/2005 07:24:00 PM | 7 comments
Sunday, May 22, 2005
another one bites the dust I got bored at graduation service and wrote a poem. check it out here posted by John David Walt | at 5/22/2005 09:29:00 PM | 3 comments
Saturday, May 21, 2005
check it out pentecost poem posted by John David Walt | at 5/21/2005 09:17:00 AM | 0 comments
Monday, May 16, 2005
Pentecost: Two Kinds of People Pentecost-- the final sign. It's got me remembering the M. Knight Shayamalan movie, Signs. Perhaps the crux of the movie comes with this word from Graham Hess (played by Mel Gibson) to his brother Merrill as they are pondering the phenomenon of the lights in the sky.
"People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance. I'm sure the people in Group number two are looking at those fourteen lights in very suspicious way. For them, the situation isn't fifty-fifty. Could be bad, could be good. But deep down, they feel that whatever happens, they're on their own. And that fills them with fear. Yeah, there are those people. But there's a whole lot of people in the Group number one. When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone their to help them. And that fills them with hope. See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky? Or, look at the question this way: Is it possible that there are no coincidences?"
As I have read through Acts 2 this past week this verse has captured my attention and reflection:
12So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "Whatever could this mean?" 13Others mocking said, "They are full of new wine."
Two kinds of people. . . . . . right?
Labels: passion year, quotes
posted by John David Walt | at 5/16/2005 10:53:00 PM | 3 comments
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