writer's blog...

i think that the response to my last post has thrown me a little, hence the lack of blogging since - thanks very much for your feedback, nice to think that some stuff i have been mulling on for some time has stirred a response. very little to share really, i've added ben mizen to the blog roll - or d3parture as his cool blog name is, and changed the 'books i'm pretending to read' list.



i've started to read dietrich bonhoeffer's 'life together' as recomended by deepthought, lots of big words, although some of them i think i understand. at church at the moment we're going through a series based on the core doctrines of the church - last week was all about atonement and bonhoeffer offers some powerful reflections on what atonement and righteousness are, i particularly liked the idea of 'our righteousness [being] an 'alien righteaousness' a righteousness that comes from outside of us'.

i've often got hung up on the fact that we preach a message of salvation by grace in the evangelical church but practice a theology of salvation by works. anything that reminds me that being good isn't the way to God floats my boat, and more so that righteousness doesn't come as a result of 'being good' but instead being good comes as a result of that eternal or alien righteousness.

i suspect i like that theology because i don't consider myself to be a very good person! alas...