Comments on: prayer from the cell: constructions http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/1890 David Hayward is a pastor artistically stripping to the essential. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:08:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Notable Quotables « re-dreaming the dream http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/1890/comment-page-1#comment-35895 Notable Quotables « re-dreaming the dream Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:03:09 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1890#comment-35895 [...] Thanks for the photo: Naked Pastor & Think Christian [...] [...] Thanks for the photo: Naked Pastor & Think Christian [...]

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]]> By: Kevin http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/1890/comment-page-1#comment-35806 Kevin Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:09:55 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1890#comment-35806 For the same reason that the Jews headed to one at the instruction of the same God who does not dwell in temples made with hands. This statement has nothing to do with temples of worship; it has everything to do with conceiving of a god who can be contained in one and then rented as needed in a pagan fashion. The early Christians continued to meet in the temple. The Church temporarily found itself without their own during periods of persecution. But, the church's buildings today are still "temples," assuming that the people who go there to worship God and receive the Sacraments are, themselves, temples. We have apostles, prophets, elders, bishops, priests, today in the Church, only because we are all priests. We can similarly have temples -- sacred places set apart for worship -- only because we are all consecrated as temples at our baptisms. The other option is an ahistorical indifference, a sort of gnosticism or Montanism that sees no value in matter; or, it is an idolization of the living room. I have seen no greater abuse of space in my life than by friends in "house churches" who insist so strongly against "temples" that they unknowingly turn their living room into one. For the same reason that the Jews headed to one at the instruction of the same God who does not dwell in temples made with hands. This statement has nothing to do with temples of worship; it has everything to do with conceiving of a god who can be contained in one and then rented as needed in a pagan fashion.

The early Christians continued to meet in the temple. The Church temporarily found itself without their own during periods of persecution. But, the church’s buildings today are still “temples,” assuming that the people who go there to worship God and receive the Sacraments are, themselves, temples. We have apostles, prophets, elders, bishops, priests, today in the Church, only because we are all priests. We can similarly have temples — sacred places set apart for worship — only because we are all consecrated as temples at our baptisms.

The other option is an ahistorical indifference, a sort of gnosticism or Montanism that sees no value in matter; or, it is an idolization of the living room. I have seen no greater abuse of space in my life than by friends in “house churches” who insist so strongly against “temples” that they unknowingly turn their living room into one.

]]> By: B Cloud http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/1890/comment-page-1#comment-35395 B Cloud Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:47:24 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1890#comment-35395 Acts 2:41-4:47 They met in the Temple - it says and In each others homes. Both are beautiful and natural expressions of the body of Christ for the last 2000 years - I hope we keep it Acts 2:41-4:47

They met in the Temple – it says
and
In each others homes.

Both are beautiful and natural expressions of the body of Christ for the last 2000 years – I hope we keep it

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