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My Jesus, by Todd Agnew

Which Jesus do you follow?
Which Jesus do you serve?
If Ephesians says to imitate Christ
Then why do you look so much like the world?

Cause my Jesus bled and died
He spent His time with thieves and liars
He loved the poor and accosted the arrogant
So which one do you want to be?

Blessed are the poor in spirit
Or do we pray to be blessed with the wealth of this land
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness
Or do we ache for another taste of this world of shifting sand

Cause my Jesus bled and died for my sins
He spent His time with thieves and sluts and liars
He loved the poor and accosted the rich
So which one do you want to be?

Who is this that you follow
This picture of the American dream
If Jesus was here would you walk right by on the other side or fall down and worship at His holy feet

Pretty blue eyes and curly brown hair and a clear complexion
Is how you see Him as He dies for Your sins
But the Word says He was battered and scarred
Or did you miss that part
Sometimes I doubt we’d recognize Him

Cause my Jesus bled and died
He spent His time with thieves and the least of these
He loved the poor and accosted the comfortable
So which one do you want to be?

Cause my Jesus would never be accepted in my church
The blood and dirt on His feet might stain the carpet
But He reaches for the hurting and despises the proud
I think He’d prefer Beale St. to the stained glass crowd
And I know that He can hear me if I cry out loud!

I want to be like my Jesus!
I want to be like my Jesus!

Not a posterchild for American prosperity, but like my Jesus
You see I’m tired of living for success and popularity
I want to be like my Jesus but I’m not sure what that means to be like You Jesus
Cause You said to live like You, love like You but then You died for me
Can I be like You Jesus?
I want to be like my Jesus

Hello all:

Bobby Ross, editor of the Christian Chronicle, has written an excellent article on the recent debate on unity between Churches of Christ and Independent Christian Churches that occured at FHU.

While it sounds as if the debate didn’t change very much, it is good to hear that FHU allowed the debate to occur on their campus at all.

-Clarke

Hello everyone:

Well, I am somewhat caught up in my Astronomy and Criminal Law classes for today, so I have a minute to sit down and blog.

As I wrote in my last post, I’ve been really busy with school. Work slowed down just about the time school started so that my activity level stayed just about the same. Now that has changed.

I’m still under an overtime freeze at work, but now I’m taking a fire apperatus operators classs for work during work hours. This is taking up some of my time. Also, my wildland fire classes are starting with the first one starting next week, so my schedule is very messed up.

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On the Restoration and Unity fronts, the Stone-Campbell Dialogue has issued a study guide and brochure on how to create a local Dialogue in your own community, in advance of the 2008 anniversary of 200 years of our movement.

This just came out a week or so ago, and was publized today in the Disciples News Service news brief for the week. This comes at an interesting time for me. Back in March or April when Sara and I went to the Stone-Campbell Symposium, I met the Regional Minister for the Disciples in Oregon. I then contacted her via email and we agreed to speak more and work together on something to promote unity within the Restoration Movement. She told me that she would be busy until November or so, but that we could start working on it then.

So, is it coincidence that the S-C Dialogue put this out right when they did, or is it providential? My faith tells me that there is something more than mere coincidence working here.

If the Disciples minister agrees, I want to persue a local S-C Dialogue here in Portland.

So…if you are in the Portland Metro area, or know someone who is a member of a restoration movement church, I’d like to hear from you. This project will take a lot of work. Its likely to get some strong reactions from some churches in the area, and some of those reactions will probably be pretty negative.

And you’ll hear about it here first.

-Clarke

Hello all:

I wanted to let you all know that I’m stil around. I’ve been buried between school and work.

Typically, I go to church whenever I can. Sunday morning, evening, Wednesday night, and whenever else there is something going on. Lately, I’ve only been able to get there Sunday morning. I work on Wednesdays with my new job, and while I have a flex schedule, I’ve been dragged into late meetings, pulled into training sessions, and generally kept too busy to go.

Sunday nights have been a myriad of reasons, but I’ve missed alot of those as well. I feel disconnected.

Now, school has started. I’m taking Astronomy as one of my lab science requirments, as well as Criminal Law and a couple of Wildland Fire classess for professional upgrade. The Astronomy class is a lot of work. I’m contemplating switching to another community college thats a little bit closer to where we will be moving because my school won’t accept some of my credits from Cascade College.

So, thats where I’ve been. I am working on a new post about division, but its kind of long and is not done yet. Hopefully I’ll post that soon.

-Clarke