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Good conversation
"When is the last time you had a great conversation, a conversation that was not just two intersecting monologues... but a conversation in which...
--you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew
--you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that you thought you had lost
--the two of you were brought onto a different plane
--the conversation continued to sing in your mind for weeks afterwards?"
John O'Donohue, “The Inner Landscape of Beauty" (quoted on NPR).
C.S. Lewis
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. (the same goes for 'her')
The Eagle and the Child
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2 comments:
as Brian pointed out in the previous thread, Capon's interpretation of the Parable of the Sower and the Seed, is that Jesus IS the Word of God that has already been sown in all of the world (the true light that gives light to every man-John 1).
our job is not to take Jesus to the ends of the earth ... it is to go to the ends of the earth with the Good News that Jesus is already there and the news about what he has done for them.
Any thoughts?
The following chapter discusses the catholicity and mystery of the kingdom as revealed in the parable.
"Our job is not to take Jesus to the ends of the earth ... it is to go to the ends of the earth with the Good News that Jesus is already there and the news about what he has done for them."
Yes! This reminds me of Don Richardson's book titled "Eternity in Their Hearts". The 30-year-old book is filled with some 25 accounts of diverse tribes and people groups who already had an incredible awarenss/preparedness of and for the Good News when astonished missionaries arrived.
Richardson pioneered the concept of the "redemptive analogy" -- the idea that every distinct cultrue and people group has some key aspect which has prepared them to to receive the full understanding of God's truth revealed in Christ. All we have to do is find the key and turn it to unlock what God has already done through generations and sometimes millenia.
Maybe we should modify our concept of "bringing" the Kingdom or "extending" the kingdom to the idea of "finding" the kingdom in people's hearts and "unlocking" it.
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