http://danwarnke.wordpress.com Asking questions Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:24:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://danwarnke.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/what-else-would-you-do/#comment-4 Dan Wilt Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:24:57 +0000 http://danwarnke.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-4 Nice. Nice.

]]> http://danwarnke.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/what-else-would-you-do/#comment-3 Will Bernard Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:21:21 +0000 http://danwarnke.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-3 Great post Dan. It's a tricky balance. I agree that often our style misrepresents worship. But on the other hand, as Brian Doerksen points out, singing is something that the church has done though the ages because it is accessible to large groups. How do we avoid the monster of the contemporary worship industry but still allow music to have it's place in worship? Great post Dan. It’s a tricky balance. I agree that often our style misrepresents worship. But on the other hand, as Brian Doerksen points out, singing is something that the church has done though the ages because it is accessible to large groups. How do we avoid the monster of the contemporary worship industry but still allow music to have it’s place in worship?

]]> http://danwarnke.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/week-1-media/#comment-2 Carol Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:39:07 +0000 http://danwarnke.wordpress.com/?p=5#comment-2 Love your statement that: 'some things are so true that if you try and talk about them in very factual language it just doesn’t seem to work. It ruins it. It’s like some things are so true only poetry can capture them.' I think the nature of God, though empathetic to all our human experiences and earthliness, is also ethereal in its divine qualilties and so ungraspable for us to limit to 'factual language'. Its not a matter of God being so out of reach or spiritual that we couldnt get him right, but rather that He is so substantial that we cant fit Him all into plain linear language. Creatively praising God in a spectrum of forms will surely hint towards a truer expression of who God is. Love your statement that: ’some things are so true that if you try and talk about them in very factual language it just doesn’t seem to work. It ruins it. It’s like some things are so true only poetry can capture them.’
I think the nature of God, though empathetic to all our human experiences and earthliness, is also ethereal in its divine qualilties and so ungraspable for us to limit to ‘factual language’. Its not a matter of God being so out of reach or spiritual that we couldnt get him right, but rather that He is so substantial that we cant fit Him all into plain linear language. Creatively praising God in a spectrum of forms will surely hint towards a truer expression of who God is.

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