the law of worship is the law of belief
- CCC youth group ministers & ministees: welcome.
- everyone else: i guess you can be welcome as well.
i need to recap the meaning of this blog's title in order for you to understand its purpose. the phrase "lex orandi, lex credendi" translates loosely to "the law of prayer is the law of belief." lex = law, orans = prayer, credendi = belief or worship. for a detailed wiki entry, click the title of this post. for my summary, read on.
posted by INTeJer at 5:26 PM 2 comments
when i asked myself, "what is worship?" for the first time, i didn't know how to answer. but having been helped along for a time by some older, wiser, more knowledgeable Christians, i think i have at least one answer. i've blog'd it before, but always introspectively and never (for the most part) didactically.
the Bible is, for us today, God's primary Self-revelation. it makes sense to begin there for any "what is ___" questions concerning our faith in Him. what would we have, if He had never revealed Himself to peeps past?
posted by INTeJer at 11:07 AM 2 comments
briefly, this time... and it's going to be sort of odd. what i'm going to say goes against my character. usually i write on something that i feel strongly committed to, something that lines up with the way i think and feel. this time, it's a little different.
stop questioning your faith...
...unless you have trusted/admired friends who don't.
posted by INTeJer at 10:37 PM 0 comments
how corny is that title?!
here's the deal: since hundreds of years ago, we Protestant Christians have had this antithesis between 'talking the talk' and 'walking the walk.' the point i want to make in this post, is that this sharp distinction between thinking and doing is not such a strong one. it may even be invalid altogether. put more simply: i'm not sure that you can separate the two, the way i've always been taught.
seriously, haven't you always heard that? "there's a difference between believing in God, and following God. faith without works is dead." (oooh, scripture...)
and which comes first, do you think? believing in God, or obeying Him?
"come on, isaiah... it's so obvious. why are you even asking?"
because oftentimes, the things that are most familiar to us are the greatest barriers to learning.
"what are you saying, exactly??"
i'm saying that believing doesn't necessarily come first, anymore.
posted by INTeJer at 1:01 AM 3 comments
blasphemous!!
but you know how i love to play the heretic... right? right. then on with it.
God is human.
posted by INTeJer at 3:44 PM 0 comments
the truth is, friends, i've arrived at this point: i know that i believe what i want to believe, because if i didn't believe it, i wouldn't want to.
posted by INTeJer at 1:50 PM 0 comments
