July 7, 2009
Our company arrived about 9:30 last night. Most of today everyone just hung around the house. S and the kids went for a walk. W and family came over for most of the afternoon. I got out all the toys we packed up (for our move…), and have been having a lot of fun playing with the kids – blowing bubbles, building log cabins, playing pig-in-the-middle, playing with little cars, etc! Fun!
Well, I had an interesting discussion with S about the difference between Canadian and American approaches to Christianity and to government – and to the both combined. We agree that the two nations really do have different approaches, going back to quite different early history.
I got kind of upset – hurt, actually – when J went off about how heretical The Shack is… I think what it comes down to is that YOU used that book, Papa – in my case, at least – to show me that You really do LOVE me – here, now, in ALL my life, and that I really can love You and have a relationship with You… and that You aren’t constantly, well, rejecting me because of my sins….
What it came down to (and I was actually on the very verge of tears) is that I’d rather die than go back to the way things were before I knew that YOU LOVE ME!
J (and S too) is really concerned about “The Shack” author’s universalism and his rejection of penal substitutionary atonement (I do need to look into that… I think the God Journey group are there too)… J has a book that says the only thing that the Emergents agree on is their eschatology… and the rest they are pretty laid back about…
I’m SO tired. I’m going to sleep now. Lord, I DO want YOUR truth. I DO WANT YOU!!!!
