Understanding Church Has to be Relevant to be Sticky
posted: 12 Mar 2011 comments: 2category:
Relevance is surely another word that makes the church sticky. For too long the impression that many people get is that the church is no longer relevant to their everyday lives. For a start most of our buildings are only open during limited periods in the week. The thing is that many of them are situated in really prominent positions. People walk past them every day. However the building and its facade is often screaming. Keep out! I sometimes wonder if those of us who...
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We come to listen
We come to see
We come to be inspired
Amazon sounds are deep
The jungle has a river face
Green vegetation
Camouflages raw nature
A parrot
Perched high talks aloud
An anaconda
Wanders in the mud
Slithering on the ground
Debree
Floats on the surface
Paranoia lurks in the deep
As Parana fish scavenge for blood
Sailing murky waters is not new
Nothing is transparent
Its not easy to navigate
Nothing in the Jungle ever is
Concrete...
O Lord,
It's a new day
It's a new dawn
Can I have a new start
I'd like to start from the inside out
You know not so much style more substance
So could I please have a new attitude?
Help me be the change maker
in my family
in my workplace
in my church
Among my friends
Guard my lips
Teach me how to listen
Not only to others but to myself
It's not what I say that causes offence
Its how I say it
Lord
One more thing
I'm sorry about my prayer life
It's...
Look see me
I'm browned off
Brassed off
cheesed off
I mean it
I'm really cheesed off
I don't like this feelin
I'm cheesed off
With God – why me - why all this suffering ?
I'm cheesed off
With work – why me - why all this pressure ?
I'm cheesed off
With my credit card – the interest rate is too high!
I'm cheesed off
With my family - surely its not always my fault
I'm cheesed off
With religion – they're all hypocites
I'm cheesed off...