http://www.cocomment.com/comments/Matybigfro Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-25T05:08:15.957+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2584962&comment_id=133209476 Anonymous 'Progressive' - better than you 'Emergent' - Cooler than you 'Contemporary' - Trendier and often better looking than you 2009-10-08T10:43:33.595+02:00 2009-10-08T10:43:33.595+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2584137&comment_id=132884794 matybigfro Simon has no blog very little web prescences but here's a few links http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/festival/2009/lineup/event/2952 http://pipwilsonbhp.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-week-i-spent-beautifully-alive.html http://www.emergingchurch.info/stories/revive/index.htm ) 2009-10-06T14:44:10.944+02:00 2009-10-06T14:44:10.944+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2584137&comment_id=132884395 matybigfro I've been meaning to dive into this Holy spirit series but have been so busy this is the first post i've got to read fully and there is so much to chew on. In my lunch break here otherwise I would deffinatly want to wrestle with some of those questions left at the end, but just quickly the last one about positive deviants. Ever since seeing this series start I've been reminded of a talk I heard at Greenbelt called 'the thoughtful charismatic' by Simon Hall which was really a call for some of the values of a place like Greenbelt to affect the charismatic movement and vice versa. It seemed to have a similar heart to this series in recovering the need for the charismatics and the charismatic view of the spirit for those who seek the kingdom as well as desire to see a real desire for the kingdom in those who seek to be charismatic. 2009-10-06T14:40:29.410+02:00 2009-10-06T14:40:29.410+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2582957&comment_id=132320104 matybigfro wow i think what started off as helpful debate at Sudworths place has maybe fallen off the apple cart here 2009-10-03T17:36:28.710+02:00 2009-10-03T17:36:28.710+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2579785&comment_id=130853242 matybigfro while I really enjoyed/affirm allot of Pete's and Kester's writings and the 'the subversion of blocked orthodoxy?' that has been going on in the emerging/alt church scene I think Richard has hit upon a fairly important question. I worry that when you look at the emerging church you see white, apple, wealth, male, literate and educated. If power is being unblocked it does not seem it's being unblocked very far. There is a danger that in playing the games of power the subversion is happening in the wrong way's. It seems this is one of the few common grounds of both the American and UK emerging scene's although there has been a more intentionality (although many still are not happy with how far this has gone) in the US than over hear. History tends to teach that when power is wrestled from one body to another that very little tends to change - in the act of wresting it seems the principality's and powers tend to stay in place while the face of him seated in the place of power may have changed. However when power is given away both in submission and sharing power in generative way's maybe there is hope for difference and opportunity 2009-09-26T15:14:36.966+02:00 2009-09-26T15:14:36.966+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2573604&comment_id=127904339 matybigfro I saw Derron do something very similar to the messiah stuff and again as someone at points involved with the charismatic Christianity circus it was somewhat scary (and also familiar) What I also found interesting is that he used to be a christian himself I wondered whether he was almost mimicking ministers he'd seen himself 2009-09-12T23:32:39.707+02:00 2009-09-12T23:32:39.707+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2566335&comment_id=124100381 undefined enlightening and entertaining as ever keep up the good work, glad to see your getting more reads and stuff 2009-08-26T20:59:11.374+02:00 2009-08-26T20:59:11.374+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2563334&comment_id=123978621 undefined doubting ones convictions is always a bit healthy i think most would say, it seems to me though that dawkins doesn't have any doubt in his own convictions just others. That is simply rude and arrogant (many christian have been similarly guilty of this and also hit raw nerver) I found the alpha documentary really dire, i had no problem with him having an agenda and wanting to go after alpha but what he did was really limp, weak and somewhat boring. it wasn't event entertaining let alone enlightening or representative 2009-08-20T16:14:32.855+02:00 2009-08-20T16:14:32.855+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2563312&comment_id=123972711 Matt Wilson (Google) Its interesting really that this once really a responce to the previous post but simply a justification of the choice to attend the pre-amentioned church. - Storys are import but so are idea's there are plenty if not as many story's as to why people don't attend hillsong or have left as to why people are there. - So many of the idea's behind the mega church structure and particular megachurch practice and teaching that are not just non-biblical but anti-biblical, unhealthy and dangerous. This post answers or responds to none of them. - This responce really just proves the point - if entertainment is more important than content or even a genuine representation of christian teaching/devotion/worship/faith/discipleship then why not just go the whole Hog and take the family to Disney Land, the Big day out or just buy a huge home entertainment system lot's of DVDs and a PS3 and have "church" at home - At least then your not gonna sound like an idiot if your talking about "the HOUSE" all the time 2009-08-20T15:24:17.199+02:00 2009-08-20T15:24:17.199+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2563312&comment_id=123972661 Google Account Its interesting really that this once really a responce to the previous post but simply a justification of the choice to attend the pre-amentioned church. - Storys are import but so are idea's there are plenty if not as many story's as to why people don't attend hillsong or have left as to why people are there. - So many of the idea's behind the mega church structure and particular megachurch practice and teaching that are not just non-biblical but anti-biblical, unhealthy and dangerous. This post answers or responds to none of them. - This responce really just proves the point - if entertainment is more important than content or even a genuine representation of christian teaching/devotion/worship/faith/discipleship then why not just go the whole Hog and take the family to Disney Land, the Big day out or just buy a huge home entertainment system lot's of DVDs and a PS3 and have "church" at home - At least then your not gonna sound like an idiot if your talking about "the HOUSE" all the time 2009-08-20T15:23:18.679+02:00 2009-08-20T15:23:18.679+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2563312&comment_id=123972652 Select profile... Its interesting really that this once really a responce to the previous post but simply a justification of the choice to attend the pre-amentioned church. - Storys are import but so are idea's there are plenty if not as many story's as to why people don't attend hillsong or have left as to why people are there. - So many of the idea's behind the mega church structure and particular megachurch practice and teaching that are not just non-biblical but anti-biblical, unhealthy and dangerous. This post answers or responds to none of them. - This responce really just proves the point - if entertainment is more important than content or even a genuine representation of christian teaching/devotion/worship/faith/discipleship then why not just go the whole Hog and take the family to Disney Land, the Big day out or just buy a huge home entertainment system lot's of DVDs and a PS3 and have "church" at home - At least then your not gonna sound like an idiot if your talking about "the HOUSE" all the time 2009-08-20T15:22:25.171+02:00 2009-08-20T15:22:25.171+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2559335&comment_id=122408466 undefined was the historical reliability of the bible not an issue before the 18th century? Did people not care or just assume it was history. 2009-08-12T19:18:30.801+02:00 2009-08-12T19:18:30.801+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2559202&comment_id=122358841 matybigfro hmmmm cut them a little slack maybe, after 7 albums including some of the most outstanding contribution's to popular music discography surely the innovators are allowed a change and a change of pace, I really don't think this is Radiohead resting on their laurels simply changing pace and reopening new avenues for the flow of their creativity. Music and the long player are an art form but before that it was simply song, one is not necessarily better than the other; Motown’s record of singles is testament to the majesty of the short form being as valid in music as the long. Once again Radiohead are simply just doing what they want to (which has always been the key to their greatness) a long play that is half assed is in no way grand and a EP sharp and precise with its direction and passion can be outstanding. Leave em alone, better them keep producing than feel like giving up because they don’t have the excitement about albums that they used to 2009-08-12T14:52:17.292+02:00 2009-08-12T14:52:17.292+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2554263&comment_id=122186238 matybigfro Re 12 Matybigfro ‘havin it on stage’???!!! Comment by Tiggy Sagar — August 4, 2009 @ 8:46 pm to mean getting a bit exited/moving/dancing/jumping whatever 2009-08-11T19:10:35.022+02:00 2009-08-11T19:10:35.022+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2556402&comment_id=122149993 matybigfro DeYoung's manner is far from friendly sure being able to laugh at oneself is a sign of humility, but theres a difference between jocking (which one can laugh along with) and mocking (the difference being slight in tone and vast in freindship) it's more than obvious to anyone that Deyoung is by no mean a freind of emergent and I for one am tired of so called discerning leader's who seem to get off on by having all their frat boy's round and laughing at the geek in the postmodern corner (or PJ's and mommies basement) 2009-08-11T14:31:46.748+02:00 2009-08-11T14:31:46.748+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2554263&comment_id=120777607 matybigfro That used to me, I also wished sometimes i would spontaneously combust too - Sometimes I wished the congregation would go up in flames - now I'm just in a band - it's much more fun and I don't have to worry about swearing/drinking/havin it on stage 2009-08-04T18:30:05.140+02:00 2009-08-04T18:30:05.140+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2550013&comment_id=120312506 Anonymous Hope and Love surely love is the only thing left, for in the wake of such witness philosophy, theology, study, knowledge, certainty/ies and all other manner of way's to answer fail and fall to the way sides - and all we are left with is a wisp of hope and the space for Love. For God if he is here/there is Love and was love in way's we may never answer/imagine/understand but can only Hope 2009-07-31T15:43:41.479+02:00 2009-07-31T15:43:41.479+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2553087&comment_id=120625860 matybigfro it's not boding well for greenbelt i'm hoping those other christian festivals at shepton mallet soak up all the rain before greenbelt. Back in the day i remember they had quiet a few songs about letting it raina nd I hear now they're all about soaking and slosh fest's so Ireckon it's just up their street 2009-07-29T12:54:26.685+02:00 2009-07-29T12:54:26.685+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2553981&comment_id=120734015 undefined Ei, Rob bell drops the line 'there is no word for spiritual in the hebrew languace' like a right clanger phrase's like that and "in the origianal greek this word really actually ment prostitute" are a bit hard to deal with cos most of us just don't know and can't really find out very easilly. How ever if you were to take the inital quote seriously it makes idea's such as 'new age spirituallity' and 'spiritual not religious' a bit of a Joke (My pastor as a child alway's said he was not religious just a freind of Jesus) Especially interesting if you think of books such as John Drane's Do Christians Know How to be Spiritual?'. although I'd like to think if translated into hebrew the translator could choose to call is 'DO Chrisitians know how to be Human?' 2009-07-28T17:27:38.172+02:00 2009-07-28T17:27:38.172+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2550936&comment_id=120397843 Anonymous Michael - Isn't there a difference between an activity or performing a function and a role, status, title. No men cannot incubate and give birth to babies but last time I checked that made them no lesser or further authoritive as parents and as vital or essential in procreation. Men and women may lead, pastor, teach and perform sacraments differently to each other but that in no way makes one more valid to take the role, title or authority. Also I think people will stop citing abuses to dissagree with certain interpretation's or God's design when those interpretation cease to be found playing a part in, justifying and protecting abuse and abusers. 2009-07-28T12:35:37.873+02:00 2009-07-28T12:35:37.873+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2552144&comment_id=120522777 matybigfro I couldn't help thinking how alot about the charismatic movement (ampifying the under lying claim of evangelicalism to have discovered the thing that can fill the void) reflected in both the film and the freudian understanding of desire and law that you've laid out. I'm sure with your experience of the charismatic herd this isn't a new idea to you but would be interested in how you see this playing out. Particulalry the parels with energy and focus in charismaticism on achieving the experience/annointing that fills the void, the integrity of the element of the movement which acknowege's/faces up to the ongoing void/desire on the other side of the charistmatic experience and those elements that have tried to explain it away or deny it's very exsitence (seemingly an increasing focus the new charismatic Radicals like 'John Crowder') - 2009-07-24T15:03:51.625+02:00 2009-07-24T15:03:51.625+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2550178&comment_id=120418135 matybigfro ther interesting asside about driving to a church far away as there are just as many 'local churchs' with no local people and rich folks who drive from their sub's into the area the church is in as there are 'non-local churchs' where people drive out(from around) the area to. What people tend to forget is allot of these 'non-local' churches started meeting in peoples homes, scout huts or church halls just as freinds wanting to learn/experince/talk/listen/experience God. These big building are often simply a extension out growing of that just as often as not healthy life giving good extentions. 2009-07-24T14:20:56.910+02:00 2009-07-24T14:20:56.910+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2550178&comment_id=120327217 matybigfro Robb It's not just a problem with the church though is it it, those who can ship their kids tot he other side of town to get better schooling or pack them away off to the country to get the best schooling, whose who can afford pay to go the private doctors/hospital - Choice is the ruler of out free market driven world. - unfortunaly there doesn't seem to be a very attractive other option (i can imagine state enforced church attendence would go down like iron curtain) 2009-07-23T14:35:19.749+02:00 2009-07-23T14:35:19.749+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2547762&comment_id=120172464 matybigfro At 16 I got invited to a church meeting that sounded very similar to this in a church I hadn't quiet left behind. After I was manipulated into apologising for the rift that had been happening in the church for about 6-8 months and found out in that time I also had already been left behind. I decided it was best to Only go if you are at peace to don't take no bullshit while being available for reconcilliation 2009-07-22T17:46:56.793+02:00 2009-07-22T17:46:56.793+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2547234&comment_id=120138009 matybigfro Many early house churches had come out of the plymouth bretheran movement or were influenced-inspired by the teaching of arthur wallice and david lillie (or teachers inspired by them) who were Plymouth B's who had become convinced of the validity of spiritual gift (the charismatic thing) the distincitive between their teaching and the rest of charismatic teaching was that it wasn't enough to simply have a return to the minstitry of the holy spirit evident in the new testament but also a return to the church governence, structure and form they saw evident in the new testament (this was also attached to a belief that this was a pre-eminent move before the end of the world or a great revival depending on who you listened to). Hence the influence and affect of the Plymouth Breathen being rife in early and alter house churches and networks. 2009-07-22T14:33:54.679+02:00 2009-07-22T14:33:54.679+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2547234&comment_id=119933414 matybigfro Just to be a bit of a geek and history buff the house/simple/organinc church movement in america is really a late/slow growing offshoot of the UK house church movement {Itself part of the charismatic movements and somewhat influences but he plymouth bretheran (where you get the the heavy legalism and authoritarianishipness)} Tony and Felicity Dale who are pretty influencial in the house church lark were around in the 70's when it was all kicking off over here and had moved to texas before the movement got centered around the magnificent seven and subsequent Fabulous Fourteen. The main differences from what I can tell is that the house church in the UK was very much born out of the charimatic stuff going on in 70's for some it was the only place they were allowed to teach or practice the gifits of the holy spirit, for some it was a belief that his new experience needed new structures/forms and for some they believed it was part of restoring a corect (implicilty implied pure) form of christianity/church along with restoring the gifts of the holy spirit. The relationship to the charismatic renewal is really important in understanding it's birth and growth into the new church movement in the UK for allot of folks coming into house churches in the 70's in the UK their experience at bible studie gourps/prayer mettings early house churches and their steping into the charismatic experience were very interwieved. Whereas in the US it seems that the house church's tend to simply reflect he theologies/practices of the churches they came out of, some HC will be charismatic or penticostal but their IC's were also, some will be more classically evangelical in theology and practice much like the IC that the participants will have once be a part of. For the main in the UK the main thing was what the holy spirit was doing or the important emerging charismatic theology adn house churches were mearly the space that this was happening in where as in the current crop of house churches the non IC small/organic formuala is much more important focused on. 2009-07-21T18:56:40.721+02:00 2009-07-21T18:56:40.721+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2547011&comment_id=119856276 matybigfro matybigfro's tips for discerning the call of God Question one Does the specific command/call you have from God involve sacrifice/risk/pain/loss/discomfort/boring har work/not something you particularly like/being ignored and overlooked (and we're talking you know risk of death not risk of not going on holiday this year having to cut the budget back while moving to minister in a nice safe middle class suburb) Go Question two Does the specific command/call you have from God involve being listened to/looked at/respected/admired/certain jobs being beneath you/status/having a PA/being to busy to give poeople what they say they need/want as opposed to what you think they need want, speend 2 months fasting on this one before acting 2009-07-21T12:08:02.406+02:00 2009-07-21T12:08:02.406+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2533641&comment_id=115219925 matybigfro by salvic i meant salvation giving/saving words - "I am not I am “eager to condemn” but the odds are fairly stacked against him. He is from a Mormon family, and may or may not have heard the true gospel. I hope that he is saved. But the odds say probably not…" You say that being a Mormon and a strong possibility of not hearing the "true Gospel" are the factors on which you are basing your decision that ultimately Jackson belongs in hell. It sounds to me that you are saying Jackson can't be saved because he hadn't heard the correct Salvation giving magic spell told to him. "We have to have met Jesus, repented of our sin and took him to be our lord and God." nothing you have said has given me a strong reason to believe this was something that couldn't have happened to MJ, But what I know of God strongly suggests in the last moments of someones life would be the sort of time he would be doing the utmost to reach a lost sheep. Equally what I know of humans suggests that people in their dying moments are more open to God, that they are more aware of the spiritual and more attuned to truth hence I believe even in the glimpses of Jesus in Mormonism and the definite presence of people with strong church backgrounds that would have been around MJ throughout his career that reaching out to God would be something fairly reasonable to expect him to do in his dying moments. It just seems to me that you are very reluctant to consider MJ being saved without a very reasonable argument as to what would prevent him as you say turning to Jesus. 2009-07-03T21:16:19.556+02:00 2009-07-03T21:16:19.556+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2533641&comment_id=114557200 matybigfro So are you saying that we must have heard salvic words, or recieved special knowledge to be saved 2009-07-01T17:32:34.197+02:00 2009-07-01T17:32:34.197+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2533641&comment_id=114338292 matybigfro I'm not sure what logic you base your doubt's on I'm sure jackson grew up in an enviroment and lived in such time where he would have atleast heard about a god who loved him and sent his son jesus to embrace him on the cross - I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a man having a heart attack in those last min's to fling all his hope trust and faith onto God. - what I don't get is why your so eager to condem the man to hell 2009-06-30T18:03:27.302+02:00 2009-06-30T18:03:27.302+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2512012&comment_id=100262571 Account emperor's new clothers anyone! 2009-05-29T13:55:33.473+02:00 2009-05-29T13:55:33.473+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2512011&comment_id=100261197 matybigfro Dann really respect your honest push back on this, we must remember that it's real human beings on both sides of the lines in and outside the industry or system that we may have beef with. From a UK perspective i think the bigger story rather than the vid or the story behind it or message it carrying is that fact that it's gone viral so easily, (funny thing is this guy is from just down the road from me) I think on our side of the pond it has tapped into a great well of discontent (possibly holy) to do with worship/church/culture/faith the whole she bang really. For many there seems to be questions as to the validity of the whole system and structure of modern worship and it becomes hard to talk about this without it looking like a attack on people or the validity of the gifts they have offered (which is not). 2009-05-29T13:54:02.959+02:00 2009-05-29T13:54:02.959+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2489245&comment_id=83017485 Matybigfro I think this article speaks allot of wisdom on this subject http://blog.sophianetwork.org.uk/2007/11/article-rediscovering-heart-by-jenny-baker.html - to be honest i'm tired of wild at hear man church (where men go gurrr) and why men hate church 2009-04-24T17:51:47.875+02:00 2009-04-24T17:51:47.875+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2487085&comment_id=81326190 Account cool i guess that pretty much covers the whole church ever and anywhere i expect of being heritical 2009-04-21T14:13:16.455+02:00 2009-04-21T14:13:16.455+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2487085&comment_id=81323626 Account awesome i guess that makes the whole church through all of time heretical - cool now we can all get over it 2009-04-21T14:10:46.171+02:00 2009-04-21T14:10:46.171+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2430997&comment_id=60835072 matybgfro May it some times be that the inverse is also true the church can be left denieing God and that the scriptures (through use of studying the text) calls the church back its intended purpose. Which I guess is the tension born from the reformation. Its seems that time and time again as you look through history movements tend to react like a pendulum to the extremes of their predecessors - and might it be that we need preachers (or maybe prophets is a better word) who aren't faithfull to the church as an institution but faithfull to God who can call us as the church to account. Yet at the same time the church equally calls theologians/preachers/prophets to be faithfull to God too 2009-02-23T12:15:42.965+01:00 2009-02-23T12:15:42.965+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2403007&comment_id=57905974 Matybigfro there's a couple of great stories by Francis chan, posted on David Fitch's blog that I think touch on this and some of the underlying cultural/theological issues to do with growing meaningful/deep community here http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/whoah-that-just-felt-like-christianity/ he has some interesting thoughts on how Capitalism and modernity have shaped both our culture, church and theology into something pagan and negating the mission of God. 2009-02-13T11:47:41.377+01:00 2009-02-13T11:47:41.377+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2403007&comment_id=56611887 matybigfro 11. expecting community to be built within a 1-2 hour service every week. 2009-02-08T18:48:32.124+01:00 2009-02-08T18:48:32.124+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2376628&comment_id=55428033 matybigfro revive in leed is a bit old but was and is a early emerging church there is an alt worship service in ryton near newcastle (i'm assuming its still going on in liverpool theres a community that bakes bread and thats their church - not sure what it's callled but theres a book about it also there is a spirited exchanges group in newcastle i think 2009-02-04T11:41:40.183+01:00 2009-02-04T11:41:40.183+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2375351&comment_id=55246873 matybigfro When i was a kid, my mom used to drive me crazy with this one, i'd be off out to play in the worship band or to go to a prayer meeting or something. It used to do my head in when she said about serving round the home being as important. At the time i think it was honestly just bing young and bad at doing house work and having a genuine passion for God and serving in church. What it taught me though especially as I grew up was how to identify that abilty to mask selfish motives in holy apperance, that when i was more eager to be out seen to be serving God but not bothered about caring for my wife, family, freinds and home it was craving appearance only and nothing holy thanks mum 2009-02-03T15:04:33.136+01:00 2009-02-03T15:04:33.136+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2373236&comment_id=54941139 matybigfro I'm wondering if 'Zbyszek' has something In doing/not those things are we actually denying the life of Jesus or in a sense participating in his Crucifixion through the denial of his life. Is belief in the resurrection not the hope both corporately and personally that the crucifixion does not trump God, that our failures both personally and corporately do not defeat God and his work in the world, that not just in spite but in the midst of our weakness and failure God triumphs. 2009-02-01T22:51:27.735+01:00 2009-02-01T22:51:27.735+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2355606&comment_id=53769382 Matybigfro You'd think, and to be fair there are probably allot of christians and churches who do get behind this kind of thing. But do we have allot of wisdom to offer in this area. I don't think it would be unfair to say that the reason many churches aren't involved in this kind of project is because it involves leaving the safe enclaves of the middleclass homestead. There is both danger of encounter with undesirables and the posibility that the projection we have of the sought of person who does this sort of thing may change. Also for many christians their understanding of God simply doesn't support it, restoritive justice in their eyes is the most punitive kind. 2009-01-26T15:43:29.158+01:00 2009-01-26T15:43:29.158+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2341432&comment_id=53377103 matybigfro the Gideon's little free bibles they give out at schools are great. my freinds in school certainly thought it was the best for making rollies and having a holy high. 2009-01-24T01:37:57.627+01:00 2009-01-24T01:37:57.627+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2077216&comment_id=41851183 matybigfro I'm supporting the family cos my brother inlaws taking part in a art exhibition in bristol so going along for some moral, which is a shame cos yeovil is just down the road from me 2008-12-12T12:39:46.917+01:00 2008-12-12T12:39:46.917+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=2038012&comment_id=39917368 matybigfro i thought everyone knew that organic fruit taste's better these day's. I mean we all actually know it right. Just most of us either don't want to pay extra, wait longer or we're just put off by all the mud and mess. 2008-12-05T22:54:55.004+01:00 2008-12-05T22:54:55.004+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=1776079&comment_id=35712861 matybigfro tat 2008-11-21T12:43:47.139+01:00 2008-11-21T12:43:47.139+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=1776079&comment_id=33704070 matybigfro peking duck are you peking duck 2008-11-10T16:50:16.377+01:00 2008-11-10T16:50:16.377+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=1198641&comment_id=23371769 matybigfro absolutly fab GenXers Postmoderns Emergents wander what my mates little brothers lot will be called 2008-01-21T14:56:04.979+01:00 2008-01-21T14:56:04.979+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=1197237&comment_id=23352449 Matybigfro the respectfull, thoughtfull and well to use a mclarenism generous nature of the pretty much all the comments here have filled me with so much hope and joy. Thanks Jon for providing excellent stimulus and a comfortable habitat. 2008-01-20T19:37:51.951+01:00 2008-01-20T19:37:51.951+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Matybigfro&conv=996304&comment_id=18744319 Matybigfro top words Mike I agree some songs that i have sung in the past i feel had lead me into lying really. I find the whole worship thing really fustrating like a thorn in the foot. I used to lead worship allot, i loved it i still do loved to sing , but most places where i find myself hearing worship singing i can't or get annoyed. or laughthing at the huge snow ball fights that will happen in the life to come if God really does have heavenly store houses laden with snow. I like B Mac but the songs dead annoying I 2007-09-11T14:59:29.268+02:00 2007-09-11T14:59:29.268+02:00