I’ve decided 2012 is a year where I am going to start talking about the issues in my heart and what has been forming in my mind over the past couple years. My next few blogs over the coming weeks and months will be ones where I tackle issues that I think face the church today and how the church is and should be responding. I am going to talk about my thoughts, but not necessarily my conclusions. Some of these topics can’t be wrapped up into nice little packages with a bow. However I can promise that I am open to your interpretation and thoughts on these issues.
Some issues I know for sure I will be addressing are:
- Homosexuality and the church
- Women in the church
- Process theology
- You, me and consumerism
- The ignored sin of gluttony
- A passionless church
- Hell, heaven and everything in between
- Why Love is the most important
- Missions
I know some of these topics are hot right now, like Hell thanks to Rob Bell. But at the same time they are the topics that persist through time. I need to talk about them, and I need to air them out to be able to think better about them. I hope if you’re reading this that you strongly consider your positions, or lack of positions on these topics. This past year I had to destroy everything I thought I knew about certain things in order to even be able to read it with an open mind.
I am already composing my first topic for discussion, and that is homosexuality and the church. Prepare for the roller coaster. Prepare for the unexpected.
