I'm writing my latest edition on this blog about our latest additions (aren't I clever? :)).
First of all, there are some new links to new blogs under "Site Seeing." Some have a specific section geared toward singles, but most are just great Christian resources from what I've seen so far. Take a look and if you know of any that you think other readers might like to see, let us know. I just stumbled onto one of those sites - The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood - today, and from what I've read so far, it's got some really incredible stuff. I went to the "resources" tab and searched through topics by key word. I looked under "Womanhood" and "Manhood" and "Marraige" and am still devouring the articles I see. There's a lot to look at.
Second, I'm slowly getting more blog site savvy and have just set up a system to organize blog postings. Over on the left there, you'll see a list of labels. Most of the articles on this site have been placed in a category so that now, if you've got a particular need, you can find what you're looking for. Now isn't that nice?
4 comments:
I like the site -- it seems well meaning. How do you feel about it's Bible alone evangelical approach? Methodists believe in more - Scripture, Tradition, Reason, and Experience.
I'm not going to pretend to be able to put together an educated and intelligent answer for that question, :), but I will say that I like what the site is trying to do, as well. Having said that, I believe that the "Bible alone approach" tends to lead people to believe that Christianity is just a set of hard-nosed rules that don't make sense, and that God is not a loving God. In a bible class I'm taking, we always remind ourselves that the Bible is about "why" and not necessarily "how" things are supposed to happen or happened. For instance (this is going to be the longest comment ever, ha ha),if a person looks at the bible and reads that men should take on certain roles and women should take on others, and takes that as a rule that must be followed a certain way (that's a "how" kind of issue), then the bible feels limiting for no reason to a person. However, if a person uses reason and experience to look at "why" God put those gender roles into place, we see that it's really a way to make sure everyone in a group of people is best taken care of so that Abraham's covenant and the fulfillment of God's promises could and can be carried to completion.
I think we ought to be living and growing based on all of those things you mentioned, together. Limiting our approach to any one thing seems like limiting God to work through that one approach only and I think that most any denomination would agree that God can't be limited.
I have no idea if that answers your question or not.It's an interesting point that you raise...what are your thoughts?
I think that the site has quite a point. Society has changed a lot in our lifetime. I do like the balanced approach. God is bigger than Scripture, Reason, Tradion, etc. and I do think that Western culture has changed the rules and altered the "plan" a lot though.
Men and women didn't have to face these issues whn the Bible was written.
Interesting!
I just found an article that's related to gender roles that doesn't beat around the bush when it comes to differences between men and women. It's at http://www.crosswalk.com/11568752/page1/ (copy and paste it to access the link).
I think that being aware of these differences can really affect relationships between the sexes. Let me know if this sort of thing interests anyone else. It appears to be my cause at the moment. :) I'm also going to post the link to crosswalk.com, which is the site the article is posted from.
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