miletwo::network

I’ve been reading David Alan Black’s mini-book on the synoptic problem since this morning.  It’s almost done and I’ll be bummed when I’m through it. The bigger issue I’m having today is that I’ve been around the church for over thirty years and I’m just now getting to this stuff. Why is that?  I guess it’s probably my own fault.  Either somebody forgot to tell me that Paul and Luke were buddies, that Mark hung out with Peter and likely wrote his gospel as a shorthand narrative of Paul’s sermons to the praetorium, etc. or I was sleeping that day.  I guess this kind of thing doesn’t come up in a thirty minute sermon titled “STOP BEING SO DUMB!” which is about the level that pastors today are able to get to with their stubborn and inattentive congregations.

I read The Resurgence… a lot.  As well as catalystspace.com, Mark Driscoll’s blog, Scott Knight’s blog, and a host of others.  This provides a lot of food for thought and some good ideas for how to minister hope and healing to the world around me.  I often will blog a trackback to the stuff I think is cool, but I wonder… is it okay to blog the stuff I think is lame?

So, I’ve been studying the last week or so for this weekend’s innagural event… The Gathering goes weekly!  Henceforth my problem.  You see; it used to be whenever I had opportunity to teach when I lived in california and went to miletwo::church, I could harass Steve Folgheraiter or Scott Boren with my questions on deeper theological issues.  I have no formal theology training, never went to seminary, but MAN I love to read and so I do that… a LOT!  I have stacks of books on the bible and issues facing today’s Christians, but today I realized… the books are not enough.