Ally's Question to Dad, "Why are we here on earth?"

I couldn't resist sharing this with all of you. It's just a little something to laugh at. :)

Going solo. | Stuff Christians Like – Jon Acuff

What an awesome discussion last night!!! I have to say, for me, it was as if God just stopped the clock so that we could get it all "worked out". HEART is the only word I come up with to describe our dynamic last night, even though it's a noun. I am going to us it as an adjective. Heart. We poured out hearts out...thanks, my friends. That was better than a Hallelujah!

We talked so much about community, walking with God (Footprints in the Sand), worship, Person (with a capital P), relationship. I read Jon Acuff's blog quite often and thought I'd share today's. Going Solo...

Love you dearly,
Julie

Going solo. | Stuff Christians Like – Jon Acuff

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It is GREAT to see the blog at work again!

Quotes from "Life Together" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream. The serious Christian, set down for the first time in a Christian community, is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and try to realize it. But God's grace speedily shatters such dreams. Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves.

By sheer grace God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world. He does not abandon us to those rapturous experiences and lofty moods that come over us like a dream. God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth. Only that fellowship which faces such disillusionment, with all its unhappy and ugly aspects, begins to be what it should be in God's sight, begins to grasp in faith the promise that is given to it. The sooner this shock of disillusionment come to an individual and to a community the better for both. A community which cannot bear and cannot survive such a crisis, which insists upon keeping its illusion when it should be shattered, permanently loses in that moment the promise of Christian community. Sooner or later it will collapse. Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

God hates visionary dreaming; it makes the dream proud and pretentious. The man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realized by God, others and by himself."

"Let him who cannot be alone beware of being in community, and let him who cannot be in community beware of being alone."