Comments on: Being Enmeshed (with God) http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/07/being-enmeshed-with-god/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=being-enmeshed-with-god watch out for lightning Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:16:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Lia http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/07/being-enmeshed-with-god/#comment-173 Lia Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:08:28 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=292#comment-173 Aideen, Can you give any other scriptural reference for approaching God like a child than the synoptic gospel accounts, which constitute Jesus saying it just once? God gave us a brain. Aren't we supposed to use it? And, as humans, we mature. And aren't we supposed to grow up? Aideen,

Can you give any other scriptural reference for approaching God like a child than the synoptic gospel accounts, which constitute Jesus saying it just once?

God gave us a brain. Aren’t we supposed to use it? And, as humans, we mature. And aren’t we supposed to grow up?

]]> By: Aideen http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/07/being-enmeshed-with-god/#comment-172 Aideen Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:29:11 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=292#comment-172 Hmmm, I dunno - aren't we supposed to approach the Kingdom of God like a child, meaning being utterly dependent on God? Cos we don't have what it takes by ourselves? Hmmm, I dunno – aren’t we supposed to approach the Kingdom of God like a child, meaning being utterly dependent on God? Cos we don’t have what it takes by ourselves?

]]> By: Songbird http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/07/being-enmeshed-with-god/#comment-171 Songbird Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:06:30 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=292#comment-171 It's not surprising we promote enmeshment when so much of the way our relationship with God is expressed sounds abusive. In packing and unpacking my books this week I took a look at a little devotional volume my grandmother once gave to my mother (probably 50 years ago), and it's full of this kind of stuff, about being cleansed by God's wrath. Bleh! It’s not surprising we promote enmeshment when so much of the way our relationship with God is expressed sounds abusive. In packing and unpacking my books this week I took a look at a little devotional volume my grandmother once gave to my mother (probably 50 years ago), and it’s full of this kind of stuff, about being cleansed by God’s wrath. Bleh!

]]> By: Lia http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/07/being-enmeshed-with-god/#comment-170 Lia Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:19:23 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=292#comment-170 Sabrina, I love the way you put that. Sabrina, I love the way you put that.

]]> By: Existential Punk http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/07/being-enmeshed-with-god/#comment-169 Existential Punk Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:16:46 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=292#comment-169 i loved it when you said this: 'God wants us to be differentiated, not enmeshed. God wants us to be close, not cutoff. Intimate, not consumed. Together, but separate.' So many Christians lose themselves and their identity in almost 'Stepford Wife-like' fashion. They tend to check their brains at the door of the church and blindly follow. i do not believe any longer that G-D wants us to shed our uniqueness. Great post! EP i loved it when you said this: ‘God wants us to be differentiated, not enmeshed. God wants us to be close, not cutoff. Intimate, not consumed. Together, but separate.’ So many Christians lose themselves and their identity in almost ‘Stepford Wife-like’ fashion. They tend to check their brains at the door of the church and blindly follow. i do not believe any longer that G-D wants us to shed our uniqueness. Great post!

EP

]]> By: Sabrina http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/07/being-enmeshed-with-god/#comment-168 Sabrina Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:14:05 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=292#comment-168 It took me years of on-and-off cutoff before I got it: that it's about standing on solid ground on your own two feet, having a conversation without closing your ears OR waiting dependently for the Other to move you. You said it succinctly and beautifully. Thank you for this blog. It took me years of on-and-off cutoff before I got it: that it’s about standing on solid ground on your own two feet, having a conversation without closing your ears OR waiting dependently for the Other to move you.

You said it succinctly and beautifully. Thank you for this blog.

]]> By: Shawn http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/07/being-enmeshed-with-god/#comment-167 Shawn Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:40:56 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=292#comment-167 I couldn't agree more! Beautifully said. I couldn’t agree more! Beautifully said.

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