Thanks for your thoughts. I agree that the Word of God is something that is verbal and essential to the substance of our faith. Proclaiming the Word in season and out of season is crucial! My main drag on this post was on our many tags we all put on Christianity that seem to only slow us down and divide us. Even the term “Christianity” is becoming more of a hassle than helpful for sharing the Word of God in my context here in Chicago. When I find myself putting adjectives infront of my discipleship (missional, emergent, organic, incarnational) I realize they are helpful to a certain extent, but then I just need to put those tags aside, and just DO! Thanks for your thoughts and I look forward to hearing from you again.

Great thoughts. One thing to consider in response to your comment:

“The Teacher seems to think that there is no end to the making and studying of words (Ecc 12:12). And admittedly, we must use language to participate in the world. But can words really solve the problems of this world? No! Ya gotta get out there and do something!”

I think words can solve the problems of this world, if you consider “words” to be the Gospel of Jesus Christ as presented in the Bible, and if you consider “problems” to be our separation from God. Of course, these words are only going to be seen biblically if they are proclaimed faithfully in the context of authentic gospel community, which to your point is the context of “doing something”. Words, as in the Word of God, is different from words, as in our own. We shouldn’t throw away the former just because we don’t like the latter. Actions without words (the gospel word) is as damaging as words without actions. I’m sure you agree, I just have felt the need to articulate that to people a lot recently.

Now that I’ve read only one of your blog posts and taken one sentence directly out of context (which is my pet peeve) I’ll try to keep up on your blog more often. Because it is great stuff! God Bless.

love is a verb…

as is trust!