tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119270472100281278.post5602682099866489581..comments2024-01-24T12:51:19.125-05:00Comments on Not Sure: More on Confessions and Unending ConversationsJohn Sukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14257475843355209416noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119270472100281278.post-76690398211890961452013-09-19T14:26:25.704-04:002013-09-19T14:26:25.704-04:00Are texts useful in helping communities travel thr...Are texts useful in helping communities travel through time? This seems to be a question behind your question. How does commitment to texts work out in communities traveling through time? <br /><br />The questions regarding the confessions are of course a smaller one compared to the commitment to the larger text of the Bible. Confessions are of course attempts to focus because the Biblical text is large and far more alien. <br /><br />Deep within communities that bind themselves to texts is a fear of strong blinders that immediate life imposes on us. All such texts are in some ways a Ulysses wager, a tying onself to the mast in fear of the luring song of the harpies. It is an attempt to appropriate the wisdom of the past to help navigate through uncertain waters. <br /><br />Do you offer alternatives? Will we simply become the church of "what's happening now"? http://youtu.be/OmJati2W7uAPaul Vander Klayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06223428897906325654noreply@blogger.com