The Conversation

I am one to question things.  I am the type of person that asks "why?"

I sometimes forget that others don't think this way.  I know I can blame it on the "Y Generation", but I know that is not true because my wife doesn't think this way.  Not that she accepts things as they are, but she isn't always questioning the way I do. And there are people like McLaren who are doing this as well and he was born in 1956 (I didn't just know that I looked it up on wikipedia).  So I know that I am not alone in think that questions are as important as the answer.  I recently read in Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell that followers of well known rabbis wouldn't answer the questions give to them, but would reply with a question of their own.  It was a sign that they understood the topic well enough to have a question of their own.

I wonder sometimes if I get caught up in questioning and don't ever have time to just sit and listen.  

Here is my mantra, "The point of the conversation is not to come to a conclusion, but to further the conversation."  Man that is just confusing to type.  But allow me to expand.  I know Christ and I know the message that he brought (at least I think I do), but do I really know the message.  Meaning, I will never understand all the pieces of the puzzle but that doesn't stop me from working on it.  We can't expect to put limits on God when he created the limits that we apply to him. 

This post has turned into rambling but I hope that somewhere you realize that "life is not about where you go, but about the people you meet along the way" Eddie James, skit guys.  This man changed my idea of ministry.