Comments on: question the answer http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/2069 David Hayward is a pastor artistically stripping to the essential. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:21:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Naked pastor on questions « Ranges Community Church http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/2069/comment-page-1#comment-44577 The Naked pastor on questions « Ranges Community Church Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:38:38 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2069#comment-44577 [...] One of the posts that I have flagged of his is ‘on questions’ The question is more important than the answer. To press it further: the question is the answer. Jesus often answered questions with a question. He did this because he was answering (questioning?) people who needed a fixed answer and who lived according to their answer and demanded that everyone agree with their answer. They questioned Jesus to expose his disagreement with their answer so they could justifiably execute him. Jesus answered them with questions to expose the vacuity of their answer and the fear which sponsored their answer and the murderous hatred which their answer spawned. [...] [...] One of the posts that I have flagged of his is ‘on questions’ The question is more important than the answer. To press it further: the question is the answer. Jesus often answered questions with a question. He did this because he was answering (questioning?) people who needed a fixed answer and who lived according to their answer and demanded that everyone agree with their answer. They questioned Jesus to expose his disagreement with their answer so they could justifiably execute him. Jesus answered them with questions to expose the vacuity of their answer and the fear which sponsored their answer and the murderous hatred which their answer spawned. [...]

]]> By: Richard Mullin http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/2069/comment-page-1#comment-42654 Richard Mullin Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:24:59 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2069#comment-42654 It reminds me of the U2 classic -- "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" -- years ago as a younger more fundamentalist/black&white type of believer that song puzzled me because it seemed to say that he had "found the Lord" and salvation and even "spoke in tongues" but he STILL hadn't found what he's looking for. What more is there?!!..... In fact I find people who think they have found what they are looking for -- I.E. have all the answers -- really difficult to be around because of their rigidity and lack of humility. I just want to tell them to get their head out of their @#$% -- with the love of the Lord of course!! The older I get the more I see the journey as constantly seeking and questioning -- we do get rest breaks every once in a while -- which is good. Somehow there is a peace in this constant journeying and questioning -- but we are always between the "now" and the "not yet". Richard Richard It reminds me of the U2 classic — “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” — years ago as a younger more fundamentalist/black&white type of believer that song puzzled me because it seemed to say that he had “found the Lord” and salvation and even “spoke in tongues” but he STILL hadn’t found what he’s looking for. What more is there?!!….. In fact I find people who think they have found what they are looking for — I.E. have all the answers — really difficult to be around because of their rigidity and lack of humility. I just want to tell them to get their head out of their @#$% — with the love of the Lord of course!! The older I get the more I see the journey as constantly seeking and questioning — we do get rest breaks every once in a while — which is good. Somehow there is a peace in this constant journeying and questioning — but we are always between the “now” and the “not yet”.
Richard

Richard

]]> By: fishon http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/2069/comment-page-1#comment-42470 fishon Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:49:21 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2069#comment-42470 David, fishon: you seem to refuse to accept the fact that you are entitled to you own opinion.... ----Now why would you say that? I never have had you, I have never had anyone on your blog tell me that I was not entitled to my opinion. I don't believe I have ever accused anyone of telling me that. If you can find such a statement from me, I apologize. "...as long as in putting it out there you understand that it is open for critique." -----And you really don't think I know that with all the give and take that goes on between me and others on this blog? No way, shape, or form did I tell MAs that he wasn't entitled to his opinion. fishon David,
fishon: you seem to refuse to accept the fact that you are entitled to you own opinion….
—-Now why would you say that? I never have had you, I have never had anyone on your blog tell me that I was not entitled to my opinion. I don’t believe I have ever accused anyone of telling me that. If you can find such a statement from me, I apologize.

“…as long as in putting it out there you understand that it is open for critique.”
—–And you really don’t think I know that with all the give and take that goes on between me and others on this blog?

No way, shape, or form did I tell MAs that he wasn’t entitled to his opinion.
fishon

]]> By: nakedpastor http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/2069/comment-page-1#comment-42455 nakedpastor Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:50:44 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2069#comment-42455 fishon: you seem to refuse to accept the fact that you are entitled to you own opinion, as long as in putting it out there you understand that it is open for critique. fishon: you seem to refuse to accept the fact that you are entitled to you own opinion, as long as in putting it out there you understand that it is open for critique.

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