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We are expecting our firstborn.. ooo… sometime in the next few weeks.
Anyway, we’ve been going along to ante-natal classes and something struck me as slightly interesting (don’t worry – I haven’t been falling asleep at the rest of it…).
We were talking, not surprisingly about the pain of child birth. The midwife asked the group what pain normally indicates. I responded by saying that it normally tells us that something is wrong. However, as the midwife pointed out, in the case of child birth, it is quite normal. It isn’t indicating things are wrong – in fact things are right.
Two things struck me about this.
1. This just seems to confirm that it is something given by God. The pain does not warn the body of a malfunction and yet it is there.
2. The pain does actually warn us that something is wrong – not the birth itself, but that there is something fundamentally wrong with us and the world. It is another reminder that things are not right between us and God – that is until that birth 2000 years ago when the serpent crusher was born.
I’ve been having some interesting conversations at work recently, one long one of which almost got me in trouble for ‘proselytising’ on government property.
One of the conversations got onto the subject of Hell. My friend was absolutely certain that the idea that even the worst offender should go to hell was unjust. No ’sin’ could deserve such a promise. I queried whether or not he was saying that he knew more about justice than God. He answered that on anything else he didn’t – but on this he did. I tried to point out to him that of course he didn’t think that we deserve hell for rejecting God – otherwise he wouldn’t be doing it! We talked about how the punishment actually shows how bad our rebellion is. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s quite a bit of interest in the Crowded House around the place at the moment off the back of Tim and Steve’s book ‘Total Church’.
Here are some links to some interviews that are ongoing…
