Christian Speak and Intellectualism

Today, our Pastor introduced his lesson with an amusing MP3 clip of how sometimes we Christians speak in a manner that is either confusing or offsetting to a non-be liver or a new believer. I chucked until I realized that that is exactly how we talk and address day-to-day issues. I once heard another minister address the issue by saying that sometimes our speech is so spiritual that it is of no earthly value. Now; on the other hand is the group of Christians that approaches and intellectualizes a subject to the point that not only is it confusing; it can be irritating. A classic example is an article pointed out by my son. The article is "The Boyfriend is back (and you are gonna be in trouble)" via Headsparks. First of all, let me say that I am not at all demonizing the individual that wrote it - for all I know, he wanted to stimulate our thought process and rock us out of our comfort zones - In my case he succeeded. While I agree with some of the points, I felt that an opportunity to speak many basic biblical truths was missed. My reaction was: Our focus must be toward a deep relationship with Jesus. I felt the article was over thinking the issue. Yes, there are a few that do not understand that to "love" Jesus is not the romantic love of "in love with". It would be better if they stuck to the definitions of love put forth in the bible. If it makes a man feel creepy to tell another man that he loves him ; he doesn't understand the concept of "Agape". That being said - the article makes a good point but the emphasis should be on how we have "naturalized" our spirituality and melded our "relationship with our Lord" to a carnal statement and misunderstanding of how we should feel toward God and Jesus. I wonder if Professor Stackhouse equates "Jesus I am not in love with you" to "Jesus I don't love you"?...

Texting, virtual worlds, and social networking: Cont...

Sorry for slacking folks. I promise to keep up from now on… Well, what about Virtual Worlds… It seems like everyone is getting involved in them one way or another… either directly or indirectly. A friend of mine pointed out that even an element of the church has set up shop in Second Life. If you are curious; Here is the URL .
Scot Hacker has a blog about “Religion in Second Life. It’s at

My thoughts are; Obviously, God foresaw this but would He have us choose it as a method of fulfilling the “Great Commission”? I wonder how serious a player (some with avatars of Robots and Cats) would take his path down Roman’s Road. It seems hard to hold someone’s attention while they wait for you to type in the message. I guess if one can be brought to Christ in this manner, I am all for it but I fine it hard to understand the virtualization of the Holy spirit.