Between You and Me and the Gatepost(modern)
Wow. Some of those "phone" songs were a blast from the past. Today's songs need to include the word "wild." Go for it.
So Sunday as I was leaving class and heading over to find the kids I fell in beside a guy coming out of another class. He was complaining a little about the subject matter of his class and the elevated manner in which postmodernity was discussed and how he was having a hard time following the discussion. Of course this is the classic dichotomy of the topic. How are we going to rework our approach to this postmodern world? v. Why is it that when we discuss it we are not doing it? It is frustrating in a way to invite someone to church who is just as needy as we are but not in tune to our special language and therefore lost in the wake of our self-serving ways.
Whether in church or in blogs or whatever we are most comfortable when preaching to the choir and we laud one another for reading the right books or listening to the right message or watching the right films while in essence showing disdain for the unenlightened masses. I suspect this might be worse in a town where there is such a high concentration of people involved in either ministry or higher education, but it is disheartening nonetheless. Is this really how we reach people where they are? Perhaps- if they happen to be in close proximity to our ivory towers. But yesterday, it hurt me again as I sat across a table at lunch with a friend who is what some might call rough around the edges and listened to him express disappointment with other white friends who do not publicly claim to know him. The people he specifically mentioned were people with whom I worship.
I just don't get it.
Anyway, sorry for the gripe session, but I had several things I could rant about today and I chose this one.
So Sunday as I was leaving class and heading over to find the kids I fell in beside a guy coming out of another class. He was complaining a little about the subject matter of his class and the elevated manner in which postmodernity was discussed and how he was having a hard time following the discussion. Of course this is the classic dichotomy of the topic. How are we going to rework our approach to this postmodern world? v. Why is it that when we discuss it we are not doing it? It is frustrating in a way to invite someone to church who is just as needy as we are but not in tune to our special language and therefore lost in the wake of our self-serving ways.
Whether in church or in blogs or whatever we are most comfortable when preaching to the choir and we laud one another for reading the right books or listening to the right message or watching the right films while in essence showing disdain for the unenlightened masses. I suspect this might be worse in a town where there is such a high concentration of people involved in either ministry or higher education, but it is disheartening nonetheless. Is this really how we reach people where they are? Perhaps- if they happen to be in close proximity to our ivory towers. But yesterday, it hurt me again as I sat across a table at lunch with a friend who is what some might call rough around the edges and listened to him express disappointment with other white friends who do not publicly claim to know him. The people he specifically mentioned were people with whom I worship.
I just don't get it.
Anyway, sorry for the gripe session, but I had several things I could rant about today and I chose this one.
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Born to Be Wild
Wild Thing
She's a Wild One- Faith Hill
Sorry for the disappointing lunch conversation.
Steven Curtis Chapman's "The Great Adventure" has the phrase: "into the wild blue yonder of God's amazing grace."
Who can forget our Freshman Follies song... Wild Wild West??
Regarding the conversation...keep preachin. You're right.
The WILDwood flower grew wild on the farm,
And we never knowed what it was called.
Some said it was a flower and some said it was weed,
I never gave it much thought ......
Wildwood Weed..Jim Stafford
Wild Women do, and they don't regret it!
Come on feel the noise!
Girls rock your boys!
We'll get WILD! WILD! WILD!
Stephen, way to dig for Quiet Riot!!
An old Hymn "There stands a church in the WILDwood...something, something, something"
of course "Davey, Davey Crockett, King of the WILD frontier"
Finally, the air force theme song? "Off we go into the WILD blue yonder"
Wild Times from "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"
How about Real Wild Child by Iggy Pop.
I can piture Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman and this song playing... yep, gonna be stuck in my head all day now
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