Comments on: Flickering Pixels – Group Blogging Project – Chapter 17 http://churchm.ag/flickering-pixels-group-blogging-project-chapter-17/ Exploring the Intersection of Church and Technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:25:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Susan_Stewart http://churchm.ag/flickering-pixels-group-blogging-project-chapter-17/#comment-41913 Susan_Stewart Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:48:49 +0000 http://churchcrunch.com/?p=6087#comment-41913 I also think there's more to the group (church) living as communities of faith. Whether the group is a formal church or informal as this blog group, it is the individuals that make the group. This group project would not have been of any value if we had each decided to go our own way, read or post chapters when and where we felt, or even read a different book. I think the same is true of the church. It's each individual following Christ, serving the world as described in the Bible, and living the message that holds the whole thing together. A church is a motley band of individuals that have the one thing of Christ in common. (I speak of the church as the body of Christ - not the separate buildings in which we meet.) These final chapters have many chunks that I need to chew on. I also think there's more to the group (church) living as communities of faith. Whether the group is a formal church or informal as this blog group, it is the individuals that make the group.

This group project would not have been of any value if we had each decided to go our own way, read or post chapters when and where we felt, or even read a different book. I think the same is true of the church. It's each individual following Christ, serving the world as described in the Bible, and living the message that holds the whole thing together. A church is a motley band of individuals that have the one thing of Christ in common. (I speak of the church as the body of Christ – not the separate buildings in which we meet.)

These final chapters have many chunks that I need to chew on.

]]> By: human3rror http://churchm.ag/flickering-pixels-group-blogging-project-chapter-17/#comment-41912 human3rror Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:27:05 +0000 http://churchcrunch.com/?p=6087#comment-41912 word up. that's exactly what i was thinking. word up. that's exactly what i was thinking.

]]> By: @phillipgibb http://churchm.ag/flickering-pixels-group-blogging-project-chapter-17/#comment-41914 @phillipgibb Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:02:51 +0000 http://churchcrunch.com/?p=6087#comment-41914 I get what Shane is saying when he says that Jesus was the message, that we are the message as well because we are part of the Body of Christ. And I get it that as community we are more effective than a lot of individuals trying to be effective. I take a bit of a guarded stance to Shane's notion that the Bible "was written to groups of people hoping to live as communities of faith" - technically - maybe, but that does not mean it is not personal (for the individual). What applies to the group applies to the individuals in the group. As for the medium is the message, well - if you use the Church as an example, even Christians individually, in the lives they lead, in the way the Church responds in it corporate role to challenges - then you have a resounding agreement from me. But it will take more to get me to budge on the medium-message thing when it comes to the Word of God itself and the Truth therein. (Emphasis and Focus excluded for different cultures and settings) I get what Shane is saying when he says that Jesus was the message, that we are the message as well because we are part of the Body of Christ. And I get it that as community we are more effective than a lot of individuals trying to be effective.
I take a bit of a guarded stance to Shane's notion that the Bible "was written to groups of people hoping to live as communities of faith" – technically – maybe, but that does not mean it is not personal (for the individual). What applies to the group applies to the individuals in the group.
As for the medium is the message, well – if you use the Church as an example, even Christians individually, in the lives they lead, in the way the Church responds in it corporate role to challenges – then you have a resounding agreement from me. But it will take more to get me to budge on the medium-message thing when it comes to the Word of God itself and the Truth therein. (Emphasis and Focus excluded for different cultures and settings)

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