Is it the Message, or the Men?

[awareness]

My reading has been wide and wild, according to my cradle religion, and the local church. (Links embedded)

Right now I'm enjoying "Original Blessing" by Matthew Fox.

Zeek and I are reading it, and talking on cell phones about it. We both find original blessing (as opposed to original sin) a breath of fresh air - and a great way of seeing things. God started with original blessing, not original sin. And there's still plenty of His original blessing to go around.

Eusebius Church History - He's really something else. But it provides a window into how they thought in the 4th c.

The Story of B by Danial Quinn

I also like:

Professor Bart Erhman : on the Greek manuscripts and early Christianity.

And Bishop John Shelby Spong - a non-theist Christian ... and of the ->Jesus Seminar<-. And I've been known to get Funky, as in Robert Funk, who founded the Jesus Seminar.

But I don't fully agree with any of them.

After the local church can we really hook up to any man?

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by awareness

After the local church can we really hook up to any man?

I think there's capacity to receive ministers and ministries in the plural sense, but there's a spiritual consciousness that will not sell out for any minister or any ministry.