Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast – The guys start this week talking about systems and what they’ve learned (it may surprise you), before moving on to discuss some exciting and surprising changes that are taking place in both their lives and the Rock. (“Say Good Night Gracie.” ”Good Night George.”)
Sonseed Video the guys referenced click here .
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Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast – What is detachment? Can it influence the way we live and love? Mark and Mike examine how attachment and detachment shape the way we relate, use power, and minister to each other.
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Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast - There’s a new book on the market in defense of institutional forms of Church, seemingly a reaction to the massive hemorrhaging of people leaving the big box show in search of more meaningful faith experience / relationship with Jesus and more functional forms of community, of being Church together.
Christianity Today’s interview with one of the authors of Why we Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion gives us a glimpse to the content of this offering. In fairness to the authors, the interview was short and probably not the most helpful in presenting ones case but none the less it provided some fodder for discussion for the guys. It is quite apparent that the author didn’t seem to understand what and who they were critiquing and at best set up a few straw men with a sprinkling of fear to form their argument.
A volume of 224 pages probably develops the argument as little more fully but regardless, if the interview is an accurate representation it won’t find it’s way onto our reading list anytime soon.
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Originally Published Dec 2008 in Rock Canada Newsletter.
“Tradition is the living faith of dead people… Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.” – Jaroslav Pelikan.
For me Christmas has always been a great time and full of tradition. One such tradition in our family is the annual trek to the mountains to harvest our own Christmas tree. We head westbound with picnic lunches, coffee and hot chocolate in our thermos, sleds, mitts and toques. We arrive in the snow filled mountains and begin our hunt for the new Rose family Christmas tree. The hunt is interrupted by snowball fights, sledding, a bite to eat and warm drinks and then back to the business of finding a tree. “How about this one” my son calls out pointing to a 40 foot Lodge Pole pine and we burst out into laughter with memories of the movie National Lampoons Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase (another family tradition!). This tradition is one of many we enjoy as a family. Do I hope it is a tradition my sons will continue with their families? Sure I do, but more so, I hope they take to heart the wisdom or the values within the tradition itself – the value of family and relationship. The tree hunt is nothing more than a means to that end, to enjoy each other and make memories together, to laugh and play. Read the rest of this entry »
Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast - The guys have fun with a recent survey of reasons why young adults say they stop attending Church. Is it possible that we take nonessential forms, structures and system and make them the essential at the expense of the very message we are trying to communicate? Can we honestly examine our delivery systems for what they are and be creative and flexible in the mode while maintaining the integrity of the Gospel? Mark and Michael think so!
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