tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512615033583182026.post1353151628665781828..comments2023-10-23T11:50:35.699-07:00Comments on Marks of Authentic Mission: THE HUMOUR OF CHRISTAndrew Kennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02714318748847734699noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512615033583182026.post-65070785890692031502010-03-15T06:12:20.195-07:002010-03-15T06:12:20.195-07:00Pull my finger! Brilliant. Driscol is the man!Pull my finger! Brilliant. Driscol is the man!Rageagainstthemachinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512615033583182026.post-91301937092903880782010-03-08T15:22:10.763-08:002010-03-08T15:22:10.763-08:00Yesterday I listened to mark driscolls I cant reme...Yesterday I listened to mark driscolls I cant remember Which one it was i think it was called > Special Putting preachers in their... thats all it says but if I have it right he was talking out of the book of amos and he really brought out the sarcasm that Jesus used and the bible uses. Really Really funny. <br />3 hours ago ·Jonathan James Verwernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512615033583182026.post-39223613284389990202010-03-08T15:21:12.177-08:002010-03-08T15:21:12.177-08:00Romanos,thanks again for your knowledge and insigh...Romanos,thanks again for your knowledge and insight which never ceases to amaze me! If I was an Orthodox Christian I would want you to be the Patriarch!Andrew Kennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714318748847734699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512615033583182026.post-43683969915156748552010-03-08T12:10:45.420-08:002010-03-08T12:10:45.420-08:00As an orientalist and one interested in China miss...As an orientalist and one interested in China missions, I too ran the Chinese comment thru a machine translator. When I have received Chinese comments (two in the recent past) they turned out to be invites to Asian porn, and I deleted them quickly, lest anyone visiting my blog <i>Ikonostasis</i> should follow them up. This brother just left you a token of praise, which is good. What I thought interesting is, the characters he uses as his name are read Diànnǎo and almost sound like the name Daniel, but they actually mean "computer"! The biblical name Daniel is written 但以理 in Chinese and pronounced Dànyǐlǐ, so I guess there was no pun intended. There wasn't anything at his blog yet, so perhaps he's just starting it.<br /><br />As to your topic, it is a form of latent Gnosticism, isn't it, that Christians in all times and ages have had a difficult time getting used to Jesus as a Man with all that it implies.<br /><br />Jesus Christ is the θεανθρωπος, <i>theánthropos</i>, the "God-Man" as we call Him in the Greek Orthodox Church. We are eager to confess Him as Lord and God, but we sometimes don't know how to be comfortable with Him as Man. I notice that many of the trends in modern evangelical worship tend to make the experience not far removed in atmosphere from a club or coffeehouse. This shocks the Orthodox, but we return the favor by shocking our liturgically antipodal brethren with our over-the-top ceremonialism. Touché!<br /><br />Worship is how we relate to the God half of the indivisible God-Man, but everything else about our Christian life needs to proceed from our relationship to the Man half of that same, unique Being. Why? Because He has somehow taken up our humanity with Him into the Godhead, so that the Holy Triad should no longer seem alien to us, as we are indwelt by Him and live in Them.<br /><br />Jesus the Man had a sense of humor, as we can see if we read the gospels without a religious predisposition. In fact, His attitude toward religion itself was sometimes quite humorous. <br /><br />It is because the Church throughout much of her history has been in bondage to religious spirits rather than in manly relationship with the Saviour that all kinds of atrocities have been committed in His name—wars, persecutions, tortures, you name it. Nothing that satan hasn't tried outside the Church hasn't also been tried inside her—not by Christians, of course, but by the bad seed that the enemy has planted there.<br /><br />When we meet the saints of today, those who, as Martin Luther said, "canonize themselves," we find human beings who are fully human and yet partake of the Divine Nature in some way we cannot quite fathom, but whatever it is they have, we want, that is, if we really want Jesus. Otherwise, the saints are merely an annoyance at best or an embarrassment and conviction at worst.<br /><br />Following Jesus, we can laugh at the world and its schemes and threats, because He defeated it on the Cross and defeats it in us who believe and follow Him every day.<br /><br />But there is a time for laughter, and a time to be serious, even solemn, and there too, let Jesus the God-Man show us the way. Let's worship Him as did His disciple John the Revelator, in fear and awe, but let's also walk with Him as did His disciples on that road to Emmaus, except, unlike them, let us recognize Him right away.<br /><br />Thanks for this post!Ρωμανός ~ Romanóshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00212143017939554092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512615033583182026.post-60591026893644380742010-03-08T03:58:29.571-08:002010-03-08T03:58:29.571-08:00Of course he chose us didn't he!Of course he chose us didn't he!garynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512615033583182026.post-62520669512160661252010-03-06T04:25:40.563-08:002010-03-06T04:25:40.563-08:00Thanks I got a translation from Bing translater!Thanks I got a translation from Bing translater!Andrew Kennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714318748847734699noreply@blogger.com