Comments on: cartoon: please don’t be you http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1584 david hayward is an artist trapped inside an pastor's body Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:43:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: thebutler http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1584#comment-25739 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:39:57 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1584#comment-25739 I've heard so many 'life changing' plans, visions, dreams and goals being presented in church and missions and all the way I went for them and tried to humbly folow because I didn't like myself, didn't know myself and was just too damaged to see this vision stuff for what it really is. I don't mean it's all bad. But it's been so incredibly overdone and has made many of us so self conscious that we've ended up turning our christianity into a pretty advertisement with a bunch of photoshopped models in it being all sexy and fake. Sort of like having church the way people have breast implants. The cartoon makes a very good and important point in my opinion. Agreeing with it or disagreeing with it is not the main issue, I tend to think. Cheers! I’ve heard so many ‘life changing’ plans, visions, dreams and goals being presented in church and missions and all the way I went for them and tried to humbly folow because I didn’t like myself, didn’t know myself and was just too damaged to see this vision stuff for what it really is.

I don’t mean it’s all bad.
But it’s been so incredibly overdone and has made many of us so self conscious that we’ve ended up turning our christianity into a pretty advertisement with a bunch of photoshopped models in it being all sexy and fake.
Sort of like having church the way people have breast implants.

The cartoon makes a very good and important point in my opinion.
Agreeing with it or disagreeing with it is not the main issue, I tend to think.
Cheers!

]]> by: johnski http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1584#comment-24682 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:25:42 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1584#comment-24682 Hmmmm. It is EXACTLY the situation that we face in our church right now, and as such has been very helpful in getting some of the leadership team who currently feel quite beaten down to laugh at the essential truth of the same situation, thus making it easier to work to change. In our case it comes from a failure to understand the difference between vision, values, mission statements and straplines. If it only helps us then it has been a great thing. Thank you for being prepared to draw these things...... Hmmmm.
It is EXACTLY the situation that we face in our church right now, and as such has been very helpful in getting some of the leadership team who currently feel quite beaten down to laugh at the essential truth of the same situation, thus making it easier to work to change. In our case it comes from a failure to understand the difference between vision, values, mission statements and straplines. If it only helps us then it has been a great thing.
Thank you for being prepared to draw these things……

]]> by: lor http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1584#comment-24450 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:03:51 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1584#comment-24450 fulfilling God's purpose for my life - forgiven of my sins, serving with my gifts, loving the people in my life. I'm not speaking for you - only for me. You make your own choices. fulfilling God’s purpose for my life - forgiven of my sins, serving with my gifts, loving the people in my life. I’m not speaking for you - only for me. You make your own choices.

]]> by: Darren http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1584#comment-24422 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:54:38 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1584#comment-24422 And "redemptive potential"? And “redemptive potential”?

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