Rich Tatum tagged me a while back to share 5 Things I Dig About Jesus. After much delay, and much thought, I finally am getting this post written. There are a LOT of things I dig about Jesus, but these are the most human-like things. The things I could…

Thanks for the contribution! Like I noted on your blog, I especially like the “openly scandalous lifestyle” comment. Groovy, man!

By the way, it looks like your meme post got hit by some spam-comment ‘bots.

@Jason:

Thanks for most excellent contribution! I especially liked your comment:

Jesus is my identity, in the body of Christ. I find who I am in the people of God, in the mission of Jesus in history.

This is something I struggle with often because my sense of who I am is so often bound up with the lies of my past, and even the true sins of my past, that I find it hard to truly accept his grace and embrace the adoption he’s provided me. In my reading today I thought I would cover more of 1 Timothy 1 than I did, but I got stopped on verse two, where Paul addresses Timothy as his son in the faith.

I just couldn’t get past that and had to spend some time thinking about my own sense of son-ship to my Heavenly Father.

Needs some more thinking on, I believe.

@Gracie:

All I can say is that I don’t believe it denigrates Christ in the least for us to talk about how we enjoy and appreciate him. That is, ultimately, what this sense of the word “dig” means. And if you read the things people wrote I honestly think you’ll see that there’s a lot more being said that is good, beuatiful, edifying, noteworthy, and praiseworthy.

I think if you read them, you’ll dig what we’re all saying!

But you can also be happy that nobody tagged you! I can dig that.

And thanks for your apology, by the way. It takes a strong heart to write what you did. I’m impressed.

@sista cala:

Thanks for your kind and irenic post, I appreciate it.

Regards,

Coram Deo,

Gracie

http://jasonclark.ws/2007/07/09/5-things-i-dig-about-jesus/

You woke me up! Now you have to live with the consequences …
http://blog.toph.de/2007/07/11/i_dig_jesus_the_meme_goes_on

God bless you,

Toph

First of all, I’m glad to be back in the blogging world. For those who don’t know the reasons for my long absence, check out all the news about the birth of our daughter Emma on our family blog. Two kids just take a lot more time and energy than one!…

So far, only the newest of the stable of Pneumabloggers, Jason Clark, has taken me up on the challenge to talk about Jesus. (See his post here.)

Cynthia Ware has issued me no less than three apologies and mea culpas for not digging Jesus yet. Phil Gerbyshak has promised to get to it in about a half a century or the end of the month, whichever fits into his schedule. On the plus side, though, he promises to Make It Great! (TM). John Laukkanen doesn’t return my calls. (Not that I’ve called him, but if I did, I wonder what would happen?) And it seems that Christoph Fischer has taken a blogging leave of absence. Let’s hope it’s not permanent.

Thanks, everybody, for playing along, and mega-props to John Smulo for making it happen. If you want to see the massive table of names of folks who’ve been talking about Jesus, check out his latest post on the meme.

Rich.
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It’s been sitting in my email for a few days, and it got me thinking about how firstly as an englishman, I couldn’t possibly “‘dig’ Jesus”. That’s far too american ;-)

Then it got me thinking about how I don’t generally blog journal entries, family information, personal faith information, and keep the blog focused on the topic of church and culture, and that some people construe that as me not having a personal faith and belief in Jesus. Increasingly I get emails every month from people who assume I am not a christian, and need warning about losing my faith.

So in the spirit of the “5 things I dig about Jesus” meme, and some disclosing, here are some of mine.… » [MORE]