Comments on: Struggling with a teaching http://www.askingy.com/2008/01/struggling-with-a-teaching/ a blog devoted to seeking to know Yeshua, a blog to ask tough questions and challenge paradigms. A blog that makes you think... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:47:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: askingY.com » Blog Archive » Can Deep Biblical Teaching Turn the Tide? http://www.askingy.com/2008/01/struggling-with-a-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-10760 askingY.com » Blog Archive » Can Deep Biblical Teaching Turn the Tide? Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:09:31 +0000 http://www.askingy.com/?p=606#comment-10760 [...] ask them to take great and difficult steps on their own along the way. We want people to have to struggle through the difficult teaching of Jesus so that they can own it and live it. I’m more convinced than ever that this is the [...] [...] ask them to take great and difficult steps on their own along the way. We want people to have to struggle through the difficult teaching of Jesus so that they can own it and live it. I’m more convinced than ever that this is the [...]

]]> By: britt mooney http://www.askingy.com/2008/01/struggling-with-a-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-10683 britt mooney Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:37:34 +0000 http://www.askingy.com/?p=606#comment-10683 Important to point out, though, is that Jesus did not specifically teach to confuse. He was only speaking what God told Him to say, AND NOTHING MORE. That's where we get into trouble. We say something, people get confused or bothered, and we try to backtrack, explain more (like they'll understand it better an hour later), or something else that only makes it worse. If we've said what God told us to say, there is no apology or extra explanation necessary. Those with ears to hear will hear it, or at least hear enough to approach in humility and can finally really be taught. Peace. Important to point out, though, is that Jesus did not specifically teach to confuse. He was only speaking what God told Him to say, AND NOTHING MORE. That’s where we get into trouble. We say something, people get confused or bothered, and we try to backtrack, explain more (like they’ll understand it better an hour later), or something else that only makes it worse. If we’ve said what God told us to say, there is no apology or extra explanation necessary.

Those with ears to hear will hear it, or at least hear enough to approach in humility and can finally really be taught.

Peace.

]]> By: Kevin Bullard http://www.askingy.com/2008/01/struggling-with-a-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-10671 Kevin Bullard Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:56:01 +0000 http://www.askingy.com/?p=606#comment-10671 Hell yeah! Awesome - Americanity or Christianism is what we have here in the US, where people will leave a church over a better puppet show down the street. Keep it up, bra'! Kevin Hell yeah! Awesome – Americanity or Christianism is what we have here in the US, where people will leave a church over a better puppet show down the street. Keep it up, bra’!
Kevin

]]> By: d10 http://www.askingy.com/2008/01/struggling-with-a-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-10648 d10 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:31:13 +0000 http://www.askingy.com/?p=606#comment-10648 adam, i love the quote above and i think it is right on. our modern church culture has adopted a mentality to make it easy for people to follow christ when in reality, it seems like christ did the opposite. it was like, he called people to follow him in cloaked parables, and then the calling involved complete death to their former way of life. that is NOT being taught commonly today. but i like your conclusion though about the need for teaching to disturb us out of our fixed paradigms - incidentally i think this is why britt is such an effective teacher on kingdom topics (don't let that go to your head britt if you read this!). i am personally having to learn to not make apologies for speaking difficult truths - it's hard for me because my personality is to try hard to be encouraging and sensitive to people. but eventually, i am learning that when it comes to the things of the Kingdom, some concepts can't be expressed without stepping on others' paradigms... keep up the posts on this book - it's good stuff. adam, i love the quote above and i think it is right on. our modern church culture has adopted a mentality to make it easy for people to follow christ when in reality, it seems like christ did the opposite. it was like, he called people to follow him in cloaked parables, and then the calling involved complete death to their former way of life. that is NOT being taught commonly today.

but i like your conclusion though about the need for teaching to disturb us out of our fixed paradigms – incidentally i think this is why britt is such an effective teacher on kingdom topics (don’t let that go to your head britt if you read this!).

i am personally having to learn to not make apologies for speaking difficult truths – it’s hard for me because my personality is to try hard to be encouraging and sensitive to people. but eventually, i am learning that when it comes to the things of the Kingdom, some concepts can’t be expressed without stepping on others’ paradigms…

keep up the posts on this book – it’s good stuff.

]]> By: erick bauman http://www.askingy.com/2008/01/struggling-with-a-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-10647 erick bauman Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:43:59 +0000 http://www.askingy.com/?p=606#comment-10647 I think you are spot on. I am wrestling with the same things. How about adding me and mychurchpromos.com to the links and blogroll.... holla... I think you are spot on. I am wrestling with the same things.

How about adding me and mychurchpromos.com to the links and blogroll….

holla…

]]> By: alece http://www.askingy.com/2008/01/struggling-with-a-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-10635 alece Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:03:16 +0000 http://www.askingy.com/?p=606#comment-10635 wow. this is thought-provoking stuff. i feel like our teachings should provide answers but also questions. enough to point them in the right direction and create in them a hunger to find out more, as well as the tools they can use to dig for themselves. i really want to see how this might apply to what we do here in africa... wow. this is thought-provoking stuff. i feel like our teachings should provide answers but also questions. enough to point them in the right direction and create in them a hunger to find out more, as well as the tools they can use to dig for themselves.

i really want to see how this might apply to what we do here in africa…

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