tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215116066445385512.post4887109513771375143..comments2023-07-13T05:20:07.334-04:00Comments on Reflections from Broadneck Baptist: Faith and WorksAbbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04823753643734462481noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215116066445385512.post-46435156063166185482008-11-05T13:52:00.000-05:002008-11-05T13:52:00.000-05:00Wonderful thoughts and message, Stephen! Sadly, I ...Wonderful thoughts and message, Stephen! Sadly, I did not read the blog before Sunday (school and all that) but I wished I had. It would have been the most sensible thing I had done all week (and most sensible thing I have read all week, too).<BR/><BR/>I would only add something on a much more basic, epistemological level that I think helps perpetuate this disagreement (?) or debate between faith and works. I'm coming to think that much of what we do is about creating difference, and the necessity of it (to a certain extent in our larger culture) in hashing out our individual identity. Because of this, we like binaries - either/or situations, clear definitions. This kind of thinking if very much connected to the Enlightenment (i.e. Western) thinking. I just know how much more comfortable I feel when I know where I stand with someone, or can point and say, "That is a red car," "That is my book," or "That is wrong." We like clarity and routine, right? How do we determine thing things though? Through difference-making (or distinction, if you like). <BR/><BR/>Anyway, just some random theoretical semi-nonsense here. <BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Sermon uploaded Nov. 5.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com