Looking back on my spiritual journey, which can be summed up as a journey from a narrow ideology to the wide arms of Jesus, I can now recognize various formative moments that became small stepping stone toward where I am today. I've shared a few of these on my About Page. Today I was thinking about another, perhaps one of the earliest turning points.

I was asked today I was still writing here. The answer seems to be "no," but here's a thought that struck me today:

If humans are inherently bad, then it would indeed be a nightmare if everyone lived as if there were no God, because there would be no consideration of judgement or consequences for selfish action.

A sign (borrowed from elsewhere on the web) to illustrate the fundamentalist approach to pop culture, alcohol, the rapture, intelligent design, etc, etc, and other ways we completely miss the point.

I'm still alive (or am I?)

I do intend to get back to the debate with Turretinfan (now I have to re-read his lengthy posts to get back up to speed).

I did make my first on-topic mark on the web in weeks just today, posing some questions about the idea of "Truth" here:

http://stilltruth.com/page/source_truth#comment-1596

My absence has been due to a major work project that's finally starting to wrap up in the next few days.

In the meantime, if you haven't seen it, check out Landover Baptist Church. If you sympathize with this website, or feel that it is poking fun at you, you're probably a Fundamentalist, whether you choose the label for yourself or not.

I'll be back next week with hopefully some more in depth writing on what is and what is not Christian Fundamentalism, and the continuation of the monergism debate.

A recent iMonk post has me wondering if my engaging in conversation at this blog makes me more like Jesus.

The answer is probably "No."

On the other hand, I don't think it's making me his enemy either, so I'll probably keep at it as long as it interests me. It does make me want to know him more. But that's not the same as being like him or even loving him.

Regardless, I can't help noticing that I've not yet escaped the mindset where being "right" (or, more often in the case of Fundamentalism, being "cooperative with the agenda") is more important than being like Jesus.

 Jesus annoys me too.

In honor of yesterday's 10th anniversay of the passing of songwriter Rich Mullins, I offer this very wise quote from him:

"It starts off so beautifully and then at the end of that Psalm, the last verse of that Psalm is “How very blessed is the man who dashes the little one’s heads against the rocks.” This is not the sort of scripture you read at a pro-life meeting. But it’s in there none the less. Which is the thing about the Bible that’s why it always cracks me up when people say ‘Well in Dududududududududududududu it says’ you kinda go ‘Wow it says a lot of things in there.’ Proof texting is a very dangerous thing. I think if we were given the scriptures it was not so that we could prove that we were right about everything. If we were given the scriptures it was to humble us into realizing that God is right and the rest of us are just guessing. Which is what makes them so much fun to read, especially if you are not a fundamentalist."

Guess where the quote that titles this post came from?

The mission statement of an Anglican Church in London. And they seem to mean it.