May 10, 2011
From Pastor Roger ...
I recently read this segment in an RSS feed:
David Foster Wallace on experience — Whenever you find yourself deeply disagreeing with someone, keep this in mind:
"The exact same experience can mean two totally different things to two different people, given those people's two different belief templates and two different ways of constructing meaning from experience." – David Foster Wallace
The same exact event can reinforce the existence of God for one person and reinforce the atheism of another. A single occurrence can make one person feel more politically liberal and make another person feel more conservative.
Reflections like this make me reconsider how I feel about people I disagree with. Often, they're just processing the world a little differently than I do. That doesn't make them bad or evil. In fact, it's an opportunity to understand the world a bit better.
Remember that in the church, emotions sometimes run high, but people are being true to their experience. Give room for others' opinions and thoughts on matters and don't condemn. That's not the way to live anyway.
Let God lead us — as we gather week-by-week — to listen, to understand, to make room for Him to lead us together, even though we are different.
What's happening:
| THIS WEEK | ||||||
| SUNDAY | MONDAY | TODAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SABBATH |
| 6:45pm Jesus Walks Among the Lampstands | 6pm Committee to Nominate ... | | 6:45pm Jesus Walks Among the Lampstands | Pastor Roger Walter: Signs Watch Lunch: ALL Church Potluck | ||
| 6:45 Jesus Walks Among the Lampstands | 7 pm Pathfinder Investiture | 3:00pm Charlotte Roberts Memorial | ||||
| NEXT WEEK | ||||||
| SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SABBATH |
| 6:45pm Jesus Walks Among the Lampstands | 7pm Finance Committee | 6:45pm Jesus Walks Among the Lampstands | Pastor Roger Walter: Second Coming | |||
| 6:45 Jesus Walks Among the Lampstands | 6:45 Jesus Walks Among the Lampstands | 6:30pm Proclaim Concert - Canadian Union College Men's Quartet | ||||
