Comments on: Where Have All the Laments Gone? Part 2 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/where-have-all-the-laments-gone-part-2 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:02:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Joel Shaffer http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/where-have-all-the-laments-gone-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-3628 Joel Shaffer Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:32:03 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/?p=681#comment-3628 John, Thanks for your focus on Habakkuk and Lamenting. You helped me rediscover the richness of this book especially during such a trying time of our ministry...... John,

Thanks for your focus on Habakkuk and Lamenting. You helped me rediscover the richness of this book especially during such a trying time of our ministry……

]]> By: Chaplain Mike http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/where-have-all-the-laments-gone-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-3626 Chaplain Mike Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:28:50 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/?p=681#comment-3626 Excellent insights, John. What I keep seeing is that so many evangelicals live in the suburban "bubble," separated from the real stuff of life and their neighbor's pain. They have insulated themselves from so many experiences that lead to lament. They stand on the outside of so much human experience and genuine human interaction, that they cannot move past anger, which they lob at the nasty "world" over there from outside the walls they themselves have created. For years I lived in that bubble when I was an evangelical pastor. Now, as a hospice chaplain, I go into neighborhoods and homes that were nonexistent to me before. I see faces, encounter lifestyles, and hear pain that I never would have imagined was so prevalent. I watch as our nurses dress their wounds, I get the smell of their cigarette smoke in my clothes, I hold their hands, I touch their faces, I cry and pray with them. However, most of us live in a world in which these are non-people. If Christians could only get to know them, to walk with them through their lives and deaths as true neighbors and friends, laments would gush forth daily. Excellent insights, John. What I keep seeing is that so many evangelicals live in the suburban “bubble,” separated from the real stuff of life and their neighbor’s pain. They have insulated themselves from so many experiences that lead to lament. They stand on the outside of so much human experience and genuine human interaction, that they cannot move past anger, which they lob at the nasty “world” over there from outside the walls they themselves have created.

For years I lived in that bubble when I was an evangelical pastor. Now, as a hospice chaplain, I go into neighborhoods and homes that were nonexistent to me before. I see faces, encounter lifestyles, and hear pain that I never would have imagined was so prevalent. I watch as our nurses dress their wounds, I get the smell of their cigarette smoke in my clothes, I hold their hands, I touch their faces, I cry and pray with them. However, most of us live in a world in which these are non-people. If Christians could only get to know them, to walk with them through their lives and deaths as true neighbors and friends, laments would gush forth daily.

]]> By: Ted M. Gossard http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/where-have-all-the-laments-gone-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-3625 Ted M. Gossard Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:33:41 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/?p=681#comment-3625 Lament is where I am, and where I live more than ever. And I am part of a church community that doesn't despise lament. Lament is where I am, and where I live more than ever. And I am part of a church community that doesn’t despise lament.

]]> By: preacherman http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/where-have-all-the-laments-gone-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-3624 preacherman Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:04:02 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/?p=681#comment-3624 I want you to know that I have enjoyed this series. You John have done a fantastic job as always. You make reading your blog worth it. It has helped me in so many ways spiirtally. I don't often do this but was wondering if you and your readers could stop by my blog and leave a prayer or word of encouragement as I have been experiencing severe pain, migrains and will be undergoing tests over the next few months. The new post will be up around 5 or so central time. Again, thank you brother for all you do with your blog. It is one of the best Christians blogs out there. Keep up the great work!!! :-) I want you to know that I have enjoyed this series. You John have done a fantastic job as always. You make reading your blog worth it. It has helped me in so many ways spiirtally.

I don’t often do this but was wondering if you and your readers could stop by my blog and leave a prayer or word of encouragement as I have been experiencing severe pain, migrains and will be undergoing tests over the next few months. The new post will be up around 5 or so central time. Again, thank you brother for all you do with your blog. It is one of the best Christians blogs out there. Keep up the great work!!! :-)

]]> By: Ken http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/where-have-all-the-laments-gone-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-3623 Ken Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:58:44 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/?p=681#comment-3623 Wow! Great insights, and great meat to hang on the skeletal bones of the 'Christian Doctrine of Lament' ... which have become so dry that they have been stuffed into the closet. Thanks John. Wow! Great insights, and great meat to hang on the skeletal bones of the ‘Christian Doctrine of Lament’ … which have become so dry that they have been stuffed into the closet. Thanks John.

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