http://amalfipaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/the-life-and-times-of-a-disenfranchised-christian-volume-v-the-break-up/ A life of faith worked out in the real world. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:11:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://amalfipaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/the-life-and-times-of-a-disenfranchised-christian-volume-v-the-break-up/#comment-155 anonymous Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:56:42 +0000 http://amalfipaper.wordpress.com/?p=118#comment-155 i really appreciate your posts. i'm a bit of a Christian outcast, but i still seek. and i appreciate your words on seeking. thank you. please keep writing. i really appreciate your posts. i’m a bit of a Christian outcast, but i still seek. and i appreciate your words on seeking. thank you. please keep writing.

]]> http://amalfipaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/the-life-and-times-of-a-disenfranchised-christian-volume-v-the-break-up/#comment-146 Brian Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:55:53 +0000 http://amalfipaper.wordpress.com/?p=118#comment-146 Johnathan, It looks like after all these years we're in very similar places. Last year I stopped going to the Vineyard, to spend more time in my neighborhood loving my neighbors. I have grown to see the importance of relationship over services. It looks like I'm going to hook up with a couple in East Boston and start a faith community. Good luck sorting all this stuff out, and finding people to partner with in community. Johnathan,
It looks like after all these years we’re in very similar places. Last year I stopped going to the Vineyard, to spend more time in my neighborhood loving my neighbors. I have grown to see the importance of relationship over services. It looks like I’m going to hook up with a couple in East Boston and start a faith community. Good luck sorting all this stuff out, and finding people to partner with in community.

]]> http://amalfipaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/the-life-and-times-of-a-disenfranchised-christian-volume-v-the-break-up/#comment-145 wayneman5 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:27:40 +0000 http://amalfipaper.wordpress.com/?p=118#comment-145 I know what you mean. "Church" has been so stylized, stratified, and ossified that it bears little resemblance to the assemblies of the early followers of Christ. The true church is His body--"where any two or three gathered together in my name there I am in the midst." Commune-ity is family. And if that true agape love-from-above is not at a particular "church" building on any given Sunday morning, then I am sure that He in the end will press the buzzer and say, "Time's up. Thank you for playing the game." I look at the whole "going to church" experience as a way station on the road to the Eternal City. I definitely do not condemn it; it is necessary in our search. But the time comes for the future princes and princesses of God to awake unto the higher calling. That's what we are to be about. God bless you on your pilgrimage. Hope to see you out there on "Immortality Road" sometime: www.ImmortalityRoad.wordpress.com Kenneth Wayne Hancock I know what you mean. “Church” has been so stylized, stratified, and ossified that it bears little resemblance to the assemblies of the early followers of Christ. The true church is His body–”where any two or three gathered together in my name there I am in the midst.” Commune-ity is family. And if that true agape love-from-above is not at a particular “church” building on any given Sunday morning, then I am sure that He in the end will press the buzzer and say, “Time’s up. Thank you for playing the game.”
I look at the whole “going to church” experience as a way station on the road to the Eternal City. I definitely do not condemn it; it is necessary in our search. But the time comes for the future princes and princesses of God to awake unto the higher calling. That’s what we are to be about.
God bless you on your pilgrimage.
Hope to see you out there on “Immortality Road” sometime: http://www.ImmortalityRoad.wordpress.com
Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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