Comments on: The Rapture Song and Your Advent Hope http://nathanlewis.org/2007/12/15/the-rapture-song-and-your-advent-hope/ living the gospel Fri, 18 May 2012 16:21:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: sandrar http://nathanlewis.org/2007/12/15/the-rapture-song-and-your-advent-hope/#comment-128153 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:14:18 +0000 http://nathanlewis.org/2007/12/15/the-rapture-song-and-your-advent-hope/#comment-128153 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> by: nathan http://nathanlewis.org/2007/12/15/the-rapture-song-and-your-advent-hope/#comment-55333 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:12:46 +0000 http://nathanlewis.org/2007/12/15/the-rapture-song-and-your-advent-hope/#comment-55333 no. the last few lines of the song sound to me as if "Tom," Randy's pastor is going to preach from the book of Daniel directly following the song. Christ Community Church in Leawood Kansas is a multi-site congregation. It's web site does not tell me up front of any denominational affiliation. My sister called me and said that her children didn't understand the song at all and then she realized that her children have been raised with a completely different eschatology than we were raised to hold. When Glenda and I listened to the song, our children crowded around us asking, "What's so funny? What? What did he say? Why is that funny Dad?" Glenda and I were rolling on the floor in laughter. We are content to be raising our children to hold to a different eschatology than the one offered to us in our childhood. nathan. no. the last few lines of the song sound to me as if “Tom,” Randy’s pastor is going to preach from the book of Daniel directly following the song. Christ Community Church in Leawood Kansas is a multi-site congregation. It’s web site does not tell me up front of any denominational affiliation. My sister called me and said that her children didn’t understand the song at all and then she realized that her children have been raised with a completely different eschatology than we were raised to hold. When Glenda and I listened to the song, our children crowded around us asking, “What’s so funny? What? What did he say? Why is that funny Dad?” Glenda and I were rolling on the floor in laughter. We are content to be raising our children to hold to a different eschatology than the one offered to us in our childhood.
nathan.

]]> by: Dann http://nathanlewis.org/2007/12/15/the-rapture-song-and-your-advent-hope/#comment-55011 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:19:33 +0000 http://nathanlewis.org/2007/12/15/the-rapture-song-and-your-advent-hope/#comment-55011 I have to admit that for many years I had the Matthew 24 passage backwards. It's what the church I attended as a youth taught, and I had no reason to believe otherwise. Until, one day, I read the passage and the context became very clear! It was one of those humbling light-bulb-lights-up-what-have-I-done-with-my-life-thank-you-Dear-Holy-Spirit-for-revealing-Your-Truth moments where one realizes that nearly everything one believed, debated, argued, taught, and sometimes hurt others for was not the truth. It is good that your grace is showing with your comment, "This is our Advent hope and we share this hope with every eschatological brand of Christian." Preach it, brother! And let us all practice what ye preached! By the bye, do you know the background of the Randy Bonifield parody? I have to admit that for many years I had the Matthew 24 passage backwards. It’s what the church I attended as a youth taught, and I had no reason to believe otherwise. Until, one day, I read the passage and the context became very clear! It was one of those humbling light-bulb-lights-up-what-have-I-done-with-my-life-thank-you-Dear-Holy-Spirit-for-revealing-Your-Truth moments where one realizes that nearly everything one believed, debated, argued, taught, and sometimes hurt others for was not the truth.

It is good that your grace is showing with your comment, “This is our Advent hope and we share this hope with every eschatological brand of Christian.” Preach it, brother! And let us all practice what ye preached!

By the bye, do you know the background of the Randy Bonifield parody?

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