Comments on: The Appendix and other bodily functions… http://www.llcn.org/love/the-appendix-and-other-bodily-functions/ Official Website Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:40:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: dgerber http://www.llcn.org/love/the-appendix-and-other-bodily-functions/#comment-5 dgerber Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:54:54 +0000 http://www.llcn.org/pastor-blog/the-appendix-and-other-bodily-functions/#comment-5 Here are a couple of my thoughts. I was concerned about the level of commitment some folks were demonstrating in church. My first thought was that I needed to preach 'harder' and set the standard. A friend asked why I felt that was my job. Good question. Did my success as a pastor have anything to do with how well people follow my leadership? Am I only successful when people do what I think they should do? My success as a preacher or pastor is not dependent upon what people do or not do (See John 6.66). My other thought leans toward how we understand the body. I have seen people with neuromuscular disease that had their limbs fighting against their every desire. They are in one body but not necessarily fully functioning. That aside, the real question for me is whether simply meeting together makes us the body. Are we a body because we meet together or because we work together? We are the body when we have a common goal, submit ourselves to the accomplishment of those goals and work to those ends. That is the body...at least a more functional body. Dave Here are a couple of my thoughts. I was concerned about the level of commitment some folks were demonstrating in church. My first thought was that I needed to preach ‘harder’ and set the standard. A friend asked why I felt that was my job. Good question. Did my success as a pastor have anything to do with how well people follow my leadership? Am I only successful when people do what I think they should do? My success as a preacher or pastor is not dependent upon what people do or not do (See John 6.66).

My other thought leans toward how we understand the body. I have seen people with neuromuscular disease that had their limbs fighting against their every desire. They are in one body but not necessarily fully functioning. That aside, the real question for me is whether simply meeting together makes us the body. Are we a body because we meet together or because we work together?

We are the body when we have a common goal, submit ourselves to the accomplishment of those goals and work to those ends. That is the body…at least a more functional body.

Dave

]]> By: Don http://www.llcn.org/love/the-appendix-and-other-bodily-functions/#comment-4 Don Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:28:55 +0000 http://www.llcn.org/pastor-blog/the-appendix-and-other-bodily-functions/#comment-4 Ok, The pragmatic in me has to ask, what do you do when the body is simply not interested in working together? Of course we continue to love them all, however, there are some appendages that simply will not budge. It's like having one arm that has studied its range of motion, defined 4 movements that it is capable of doing and is focused on doing only those movements. Meanwhile, you have the opposite arm discovering that it really likes tatoos and weightlifting and flexibility training. It can do those same four movements but is excited about all the new possibilities. The cold reality is that you now have two arms that are not necessarily working against each other but are certainly not working with each other. At what point do you stop beating one arm against the other? At some point do we just accept that the one arm will make the same 4 movements and love it for what it is? Thoughts ~D Ok,

The pragmatic in me has to ask, what do you do when the body is simply not interested in working together?

Of course we continue to love them all, however, there are some appendages that simply will not budge. It’s like having one arm that has studied its range of motion, defined 4 movements that it is capable of doing and is focused on doing only those movements. Meanwhile, you have the opposite arm discovering that it really likes tatoos and weightlifting and flexibility training. It can do those same four movements but is excited about all the new possibilities.

The cold reality is that you now have two arms that are not necessarily working against each other but are certainly not working with each other.

At what point do you stop beating one arm against the other?

At some point do we just accept that the one arm will make the same 4 movements and love it for what it is?

Thoughts

~D

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