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brackets and blogs

so yesterday i am re-reading a book that has really challenged and inspired me. as i am reading i am looking at all the scribbles and underlines that have marked up the pages. asking myself "why did i underline that?", "what does this scribble mean?" etc. etc. then i noticed along the side of a bracketed section the word "blog". i had forgotten how often i read things and want to share them. my books are full of brackets and blog, brackets and blog, blog and brackets...

ya see, my intention is that i comment on these thoughts in my blog, but i rarely get to it. so i think for a while i may just pull out some excerpts that i have "bracketed" but never blogged. i may or may not comment. but this will give you a listening ear to "the voices on the journey" that i listen to.

here is the excerpt that i found yesterday...
this is in an explantation or maybe an understanding of the nicene creed.

""We belive in one...church," the creed says and that is no easy-to-swallow statement because we are surrounded by denominations, divisions, arguments, grand polemics, and petty squabbles. That's where the "we believe" part comes in: you can only know the unity of the church by believing it, not by seeing it. When you believe it, you can see through the surface dirt and cracks to the beauty and unity shining beneath. Generous orthodoxy presumes that the divisions, though tragic, are superficial compared to Christianity's deep. though often unappreciated, unity. Perhaps the more we belive in and percieve that unity, the easier it will be to move beyound the disunity.

To call the Christian church "holy" is to say something about its purpose, not its behavior at any given moment. The word church means those called out. Holy means devoted to a sacred purpose. Thus, the church is a community of people called out from the profane rush and secular hassle of life to be devoted to a sacred purpose."

that is enough to chew on for now. (the next few paragraphs are great and will follow soon) (oh,i added my own emphasis in bold, it is not in the text.)

posted by nathan sean @ Friday, September 16, 2005