Busyness and boldness
A few good and/or interesting posts to draw to your attention:
- C.J. Mahaney writes here about the difference between being busy and being diligent, faithful and fruitful. There is a promise of more to come dealing with various aspects of laziness.
- The Art of Manliness tells us how to give and take criticism like a man (HT: Reformissionary). A lot of it is common sense, and some of it ought to be sanctified with a dip in the bath of Scripture principle, but it is worth reading and following.
- Carl Trueman writes about being trapped in Neverland at Reformation 21. While I come from a different place and time (at least relatively) and therefore find his chip-on-the-shoulder angst a bit odd, I agree with the problem that he identifies. I should point out that I have reasonable credentials with which to make a critique: my mother’s father – who worked, I think, with livestock (as an ostler) in Wales – was killed when she was young, and her mother – a wise, witty, independent woman of steel – knew poverty. My father’s father worked in a London market. Does that give me enough credibility? Perhaps not. Still, the problem of a perpetual adolescence is one that needs to be hit head on. Increasingly, pastors are called to be parents also to a generation of spoiled and incompetent Peter Pans.
- Rich Barcellos gives some simple and practical thoughts on prayer meetings.
- My friend Paul Levy has some pointed comments on virtual church that are worth considering.
