June 29, 2006

a chat gone creative...

Here is something to chat about when you are pastors with IM.

gwbutterfly: yeah. well, i'm fairly convinced that
confirmation shouldn't be a sacrament

AngloBaptist: Is it really?

AngloBaptist: I thought it was not.

gwbutterfly: well, depends who you ask

gwbutterfly: its one of the five sacramental rites... which some people count as part of the 7 Sacraments, and others say we have 2 Sacraments and 5 sacramental rites

AngloBaptist: Ah.

AngloBaptist: Thus my confusion all this time.

AngloBaptist: I though there was one sacrament.

gwbutterfly: TWO!!!

gwbutterfly: Eucharist & Baptism

gwbutterfly: silly baptist

gwbutterfly: just cuz Communion isn't in your name, you think you can forget all about it

AngloBaptist: Nooo

AngloBaptist: Creation...you know, Genesis. That is the one sacrament. Our participation is through the creative action of God. Anything else is an echo of that.

AngloBaptist: I just made that up.

gwbutterfly: wow. cool

gwbutterfly: i love it!

AngloBaptist: Me too!

gwbutterfly: save that one

gwbutterfly: blog!

Posted by tripp at June 29, 2006 05:05 PM
Comments

I needed names of philosophers. Lots of names
of philosophers. So I asked my friend, Charles,
who went to Oxford, Cambridge, as well as MIT.
He is an atheist.

He listed them off: Socrates, Plato, Hericlitus,
St. Paul, St. Thomas of Aquinas, Voltaire, etc.
etc.

I was like St. Paul!!! St. Paul was a philosopher?

I just think that it is funny he is an atheist,
but he has read St. Paul as a philosopher.

I am reading Acts right now and see Paul in a
different light.

Charles teases me about my faith and I tease him back:
"I am going to keep my Big, Invisible Friend!
You never know, the entity may be a tall, furry
rabbit and you would be missing out!"

Posted by: teresa at June 30, 2006 09:59 AM