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I am Mike Noakes. (about me)My Bio... thus farMy Myspace My Wishlist Buy my books on Half.Com! (thoughts)"Before the beautiful-no, not really before but within the beautiful-the whole person quivers. He not only 'finds' the beautiful moving; rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it."
"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
"Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, stewards of the new day that is dawning."
"When we think our brother or sister has sinned against us, such an affront is not just against us but against the whole community. A community established as peaceful cannot afford to let us relish our sense of being wronged without exposing that wrong in the hopes of reconciliation."
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"All the believers were of one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possesions was their own, but they shared everything that they had."
"For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself." (reading)The Eucharist of the Early Christians The Collected Short Stories, Flannery o'Connor The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy (have read)Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II God is Near Us, Pope Benedict XVI Heretics/Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barret Browning (theology thinkers)Bishop NT WrightStanley Hauerwas Karl Barth (spirituality)Daily PrayerNutshell Christology Patristic Resources Renovare Centering Prayer Sacramental Theology The Triune God (site feed)My Atom Feed
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006State of the Village Found this link from Ben Askew. Watch this. I have been thinking a lot lately (to the detriment of my schooling, among other things) about poverty. What causes it? Why is the US the richest nation in the world yet we also do very little (in comparison to our wealth) to aid others int he world... what is the proper christian response to stuff like this? How do we kill our apathy? posted by -mike- at 3:31 PM |
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3 Comments:
How you kill apathy, is to start yourself. Decide that it's not your job to change the church, Jesus will have to do that. Decide to get involved and let Jesus change you. It's amazing what happens? As you become passionate, others just begin to catch fire too.
The church will never be changed by argument. But it will be changed by demonstration in the love and power of Jesus. If you are concerned about the poor, and we all should be - start doing something about it.
Don't worry that the task is too big. God doesn't ask you to shoulder it all, just the part he he wants you to do. Remember be faithful in the little things and God will make you ruler over much. God's looking for willing and available vessels that he can work miracles through. How did Mother Teresa accomplish so much? It was her example - and she started out helping one or a few and she was faithful with that, God increased her capacity to serve, to love and to care.
Congratulations, Mr. Lunt. You said EXACTLY what I was going to say my suspection was... Maybe we are related like that.
thanks for the link. I agree with John Lunt's comment. Change yourself...
I'd also add change your community. Find a few like minds and fight apaphy with each other together. Maybe find something small you can start to do.
And (of course) make as much noise about it as possible- bloggings great for that.
Great site btw, love it.
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