In no particular order:
1. Evolution
2. Climate change modelling
3. The trinity
4. The Australian economy
5. Why reading the Sydney Morning Herald is such a trying exercise (because of the size of the pages, not because the articles are particularly challenging)
6. What I should do after uni and whether or not it will involve secular work or MTS and whether I should do MTS in the South West or at UNSW
7. Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet
8. Why I can't just move to India right now and be a missionary. Okay, I know why not, considering I was raised a conservative Sydney Anglican, but did Gladys Aylward have a degree from Moore? If someone like her came along these days, would we simply think her mad? Or what if Keith Green was born 20 years later and was starting up his ministry now? Would we be worried that he was far too 'experiential' for us? Will I ever get to see a revival like that? Perhaps the Passion movement is the closest thing we have and I remember being wary through the whole thing. Is it possible that Sydney Anglicans are too preoccupied with preaching sound doctrine? There. I said it.
9. Why I seem to have an invisible hand clamped over my mouth during my Philosophy tutorial
10. What to do if ministry hopes and relationship hopes clash. According to Peter, all that matters is whether or not I'm serving God wherever I am but let's see if that statement still stands should I have to leave South West Sydney (because he would've then wasted more than 10 years on me haha)
11. How people can watch Today Tonight and A Current Affair. My parents have had it on the past few nights during dinner and I've heard such hard-hitting stories as: which celebrities have grey hair.
12. Fairtrade, as always
13. Why Christians support Obama. I'd genuinely just like to know why.
14. How to go about understanding most of these things better without boring myself to death
Wisest is she who knows she does not know, said Socrates. That seems to me to be of little consolation. I think I prefer this paraphrasing: the more you know, the more you know you know absolutely nothing.
#8 - I know whenever I get this impulse I look at the standard of holiness in my life, how faithful and zealous I'm being right now, and realise why. That's me, anyhoo.
ReplyDeleteOn the Syd Ang poke -- What exactly do you mean by preoccupied? As in, what alternative focus do you have in mind? Allow me to paraphrase your statement to illustrate: "is it possible that certain people are too focused on preaching the truth?"
You might find the Puritan notion of 'divine unction' interesting.
You're a really contagious thinker. I thank God for that.
ReplyDeleteI thought I'd possibly have to explain that 'poke', unfortunately, I wasn't really thinking it through. I don't think the paraphrase is really what I meant.
ReplyDeleteMaybe an example is this. The other day I was chatting to a friend who told me that her church elders got together to pray. They emerged and one told another that he condoned everything that was prayed for. One of the group said that he prayed for the congregation to fall to their knees and pray in tongues, to which he replied: "I condone every sane prayer."
I guess my friend thought that a congregation praying in tongues would be a good thing, but that Sydney Anglicans are too conservative for that? (Or sane, I thought, but she made me think about why it is I think that would be so crazy) And she is completely sane and an awesome sister in Christ, just to clarify.
Ok, weird example.
I think Keith Green is a better example. At his concerts, people regularly fell to the floor, cried, worshiped without restraint. I'm wary of people who put their hands in the air when they sing and I know that's because of my conservative Anglican background. Maybe it's just me. Perhaps what I really meant is: are some Sydney Anglicans too conservative about worship? Are we so focused on sound doctrine that we've become dead and boring when we worship because we don't want to be accused of seeming, er, Pentecostal?
I've had a few little conversations about it but I haven't thought it through all that much. #8 was more like word vomit. And now I've probably just confused you further :p
And 1.21 am? Little wonder you're so tired all the time!