Monthly Archives: April 2003
Easter Sunday
| April 22, 2003 | Posted by lesbrown under regular |
our Easter services at gateway went really well. we had four services for the first time and over 1800 people showed up, many of whom were there for the first time. our volunteers really came out in force, too and worked hard to make everything go well. overall, i’d have to say that God really made his presence known at gateway on sunday. hopefully there were a lot of people who were positively affected by their experience. we’ve had a lot of people in the past few years come on Easter for the first time and then keeping coming and eventually accept Christ. we’re hoping that this year will be no different. we’ll see what happens in the coming months.
confession
| April 22, 2003 | Posted by lesbrown under regular |
i was visiting a catholic church today and discovered that they no longer call confession confession. they now call it reconciliation. i really don’t know what to think about this from a theological perspective, but my first impression of it is favorable. it seems like saying the same thing only with a more positive spin. “confession” sounds like a real downer, like something most people wouldn’t want to do. on the other hand, “reconciliation” sounds like something anyone would want to do. it’s an interesting change. in fact, that sounds like something that the protestant church wouldn’t feel the need to protest so much. protestants wouldn’t really care to reconcile through a priest, but it would be cool to reconcile with another person, or more specifically share with another person what’s been going on and relate to them your need to reconcile with God. that would be more of an accountability partner sort of thing…very cool.
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| April 22, 2003 | Posted by lesbrown under regular |
i was visiting a catholic church today and discovered that they no longer call confession confession. they now call it reconciliation. i really don’t know what to think about this from a theological perspective, but my first impression of it is favorable. it seems like saying the same thing only with a more positive spin. “confession” sounds like a real downer, like something most people wouldn’t want to do. on the other hand, “reconciliation” sounds like something anyone would want to do. it’s an interesting change. in fact, that sounds like something that the protestant church wouldn’t feel the need to protest so much. protestants wouldn’t really care to reconcile through a priest, but it would be cool to reconcile with another person, or more specifically share with another person what’s been going on and relate to them your need to reconcile with God. that would be more of an accountability partner sort of thing…very cool.
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