Review: Coming Home to Your True Self by Albert Haase
Coming Home to Your True Self: Leaving the Emptiness of False Attractions by Albert Haase
Not too bad of a book. I wasn’t real impressed at first, but he does a good job of discussing the true and false self. Fairly easy to read. Perhaps the best part of the book was the last chapter which had to do with growing spiritually.
He does a pretty good job of breaking down the characteristics of the true and false self which is helpful. The book is very accessible, more so that Thomas Merton or others. Perhaps this is because he is a spiritual director and he is writing the book to people who simply want to grow in their faith.
Upgraded
I just upgraded this site to the new version of WordPress. It went surprisingly smooth. Now I can post from my iPod. I keep thinking I should resurrect thi now that I’m working in my dissertation.
I’m hoping this doesn’t get sent to facebook.
Paper Time
I really enjoyed my last class….and now it is time to do the paper. I’m not sure why, but I always question myself as I write it. I’m never sure what the professor wants. Then I catch myself and decide, it doesn’t matter what the professor wants, the important thing is what I’ve learned and how I’ve been changed through the process and how I can use this in ministry. Then I start wondering what the professor wants.
Missional Thoughts
As I continue to study the missional church I find myself believing that this is what “church” is meant to be. At the core, being missional is understanding and believing that you are “sent.” (See John 20:21). Yet, I find most of the time my tradition focuses on making disciples (Matt 28:19-20) while overlooking the command to “go.” If Jesus tells us to “go” then that also means that we are “sent.”
The question I’m still working out is how can you move from a framework which believes that the church is a place where people “come” to a framework which believes that a church is a people who “go”?
Still on the journey…..
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