cartoon: please don’t be you
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i have to disagree with this one, even though I understand where you’re at with it
It honors God that we wish to grow in our fellowship and our journey with Him and with each other, that we honor our full redemptive potential in who we can be. I am not the same person I was twenty years ago (thank God) nor am I who I will be twenty years from now…
maybe that ‘inspiring vision’ is wanting to walk and grow and do life together. I don’t abhor who and what I am now, but that doesn’t mean I want to stay here
I have to say I agree with “lor” on this one.
It depends how strong your relationships with each other are.
Sas x
@lor: What does “our full redemptive potential” mean? Doesn’t that make the point of this cartoon? Still stuck in the idea that all of us need redeeming, are you?
I’m not stuck anywhere. I am very much enjoying my journey and growing in the company of my God, friends and family.
And “redemptive potential”?
fulfilling God’s purpose for my life – forgiven of my sins, serving with my gifts, loving the people in my life. I’m not speaking for you – only for me. You make your own choices.
Hmmmm.
It is EXACTLY the situation that we face in our church right now, and as such has been very helpful in getting some of the leadership team who currently feel quite beaten down to laugh at the essential truth of the same situation, thus making it easier to work to change. In our case it comes from a failure to understand the difference between vision, values, mission statements and straplines. If it only helps us then it has been a great thing.
Thank you for being prepared to draw these things……
I’ve heard so many ‘life changing’ plans, visions, dreams and goals being presented in church and missions and all the way I went for them and tried to humbly folow because I didn’t like myself, didn’t know myself and was just too damaged to see this vision stuff for what it really is.
I don’t mean it’s all bad.
But it’s been so incredibly overdone and has made many of us so self conscious that we’ve ended up turning our christianity into a pretty advertisement with a bunch of photoshopped models in it being all sexy and fake.
Sort of like having church the way people have breast implants.
The cartoon makes a very good and important point in my opinion.
Agreeing with it or disagreeing with it is not the main issue, I tend to think.
Cheers!