tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323795.post3102222447421191880..comments2023-09-19T10:31:04.810-04:00Comments on beloved before time: Sacred SpaceAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215174193221101678noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323795.post-71709625185753302092009-09-18T05:28:44.864-04:002009-09-18T05:28:44.864-04:00Excellent post.
I agree I think with what you'...Excellent post.<br /><br />I agree I think with what you're getting at. I would prefer simplicity with some ornamentation to help us realize the sacredness of our gathering, as you say here. Though I also think that some of the church buildings do evoke something that so many of our gathering places do not.<br /><br />I would add to this that I would like more of a use of good liturgy, etc. Except for the common cup- :), I guess I am in large part (along with Anabapism) a conservative Anglican at heart.<br /><br />Thankfully one day we'll all be in a space in which all this is true to the nth degree, and we'll be growing in the appreciation and reality of it all.Ted M. Gossardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323795.post-43027364241931361272009-09-13T19:26:28.652-04:002009-09-13T19:26:28.652-04:00What do you think about visual elements in church ...What do you think about visual elements in church buildings and worship? Most Lutheran churches I've been in are, I think, the most astutely designed I've seen, being visibly sacred while ultimately serving to point to the Font and Table. Some would argue, though, that the sacraments are really the sole way that God has left to portray himself and his salvation to us today.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03215174193221101678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323795.post-6628367502342654182009-09-13T15:29:19.929-04:002009-09-13T15:29:19.929-04:00"The church is a body, a people, an organism,..."The church is a body, a people, an organism, not an address."<br /><br />The Church might be more than an address, but it's certainly not less. "The Word became flesh," in Peterson's suggestive translation, "and moved into the neighborhood"--not into the Platonic clouds. Our physical space <i>matters</i>, precisely because we are <i>physical</i> creatures.<br /><br />"Its money would, I believe, more glorify God by feeding the hungry and fighting injustice and and making disciples of those in darkness than by paying for stained glass and incense."<br /><br />You're not the first person to suggest that:<br /><br />"Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.” But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me."Ryan Tinettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14688725724398672405noreply@blogger.com