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Comment on Church of England 101, units of measure by dave

dave — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:48:45 +0000

I corrected that when you made the comment, having trouble working out how to comment on your comment that it was fixed

Comment on Church of England 101, units of measure by ross

ross — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:22:44 +0000

Archdeaconries and Dioceses are both collections of Deaneries? Could you explain the difference? Or should a diocese be a collection of Archdeaconries?

Got that far but still confused.

Where do all the names come from? Do you think this should be made simpler for ordinary folk to understand?

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Comment on an i61 church by ross

ross — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:13:19 +0000

I think that the fact that you acknowledge that you’re “too me centered” puts you WAY ahead of most people on the good-priest-and-Christian scale.

Comment on sin, what is that about? by ross

ross — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:56:58 +0000

I read this ages ago and keep thinking “I’ll read that again when I have more brain time and think and pray about it some more and then comment”. That hasn’t happened so far. But here’s some off the cuff stuff.

Sin matters a lot but if we focus on beating it too much we’ll end up with a very negative view of the world and of our faith. As well as NOT sinning we need to DO good things.

Example…I actually really like eating fruit - it’s nice and tasty and gives me a healthy, “yes, fruit is good” glow when I eat it. Yet I still snack on junk food a lot of the time. If I focus on how good fruit is and eating fruit all the time I’ll come to enjoy it more and more and eventually forget about the junk. If I keep thinking about how bad the junk is I’M STILL THINKING ABOUT THE JUNK!

(It’s not a great analogy but it kinda works)

Are we meant to stop it? I think we’re meant to try our best and with the holy spirit’s help we can get a long way but we will always have sinful natures. Then we hit more questions…Can we ever completely beat sin? Should we stop other people sinning? And if so how?

But just beating sin isn’t enough. Jesus wants us to be active in doing good and loving God and our neighbours. I think He wants more than a sin-free world, he wants a new world where Adam and Eve’s original sin is replaced by love and worship.

Sin will always be around but I think that love always overcomes it. With forgiveness in the world, sin matters less….gosh I’m tying myself in knots now.

Did that help move the thought on at all? Bible references are left as an exercise for the reader. I’d certainly like some.

Comment on a little throat clearing to start by ross

ross — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:27:38 +0000

Journalling can be great fun and a good discipline to have. My blogging attempts have also been met with a “why” from my better half. But then, they also didn’t last very long…perhaps she was right!

This looks like an interesting journey and may God bless it!

Comment on trying to follow Jesus: what is the point? by contrary mary

contrary mary — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:01:21 +0000

so is your question still valid? I wonder if even to ask ‘what’s the point?’ is to try to pin down faith and God’s renewal and journeying with God to an answer that fits in a couple of sentences. What are the new questions?