pull us out from the center of our common focus
so I suggest we stimulate and generate
a) songs and hymns that focus on each of the Affirmations
b) opportunities for this material to be distributed and made available to other churches
c) education about the basic theological positions of the Affirmations, so that we can create vocabulary (i.e. "what do we mean by New Birth?")
d) reasonable standards of theology, musical composition, form and structure so that we hold ourselves accountable to inherited standards of integrity
and let's do it with all the enthusiasm and joy we can muster to move our denomination forward in a vital area of popular theology!
Agreed! As much as I enjoyed our meeting, I thought we managed to just skim off the whole concept of the "new birth," and I wondered why that was. Why did no one really want to speak to its "necessity"?
ReplyDeleteNice seeing you there - and meeting your bride.