Comments on: A Practical-Prophetic Ecclesiology

By: Jim Reitman

Jim Reitman — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:57:34 +0000

So true . . . so true.

By: Kyle Strobel

Kyle Strobel — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:22:40 +0000

Maybe the spacefighter trees do more work under the “prophetic” rather than the practical. If we are missionally engaging the spacefighter trees, as resident aliens ourselves (both on our planet and others), there needs to be a prophetic filter to what worldly (other or not) elements are allowed in any practical-prophetic schema.

Say, for instance, practically speaking, we seek to develop an ecclesiology at home among spacefighter trees – say, by adopting the very method Healy worries about, a “supermodel” conception of ecclesiology, not communal or sacramental, but an adaption of the vine imagery in John 15 with the extrabiblical flourish of ray-guns. Therefore the general ecclesiological model would be ray-gun touting vines which may very well speak practically to spacefighter trees.

Once again though, the prophetic questions remains – is this true to the gospel? It could create a Driscollian flavor of the gospel if the trees actually do believe, leaving them making claims about not being able to follow a vine they can beat in a ray-gun fight.

By: Kent Eilers

Kent Eilers — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:39:34 +0000

Yes, good points James. We are always wrestling with questions about the “work” any given doctrine might be asked to do in a theological system – perhaps we have overlooked the possibility that the spacefighting trees could do the work of our ecclesiology. Hmm.

By: Soxreessy

Soxreessy — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:57:08 +0000

I wanted to share an amazing game I came across called Dyson.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2qtbka1.jpg

Basically you have to grow little spacefighter trees to go invade planets that have enemy spacefighter trees growing on them.

It’s pretty awesome. You can get it here: http://gamehq.wordpress.com/category/dyson/

What amazing freeware games have you come across?