I don't want to sound like Steve Physioc and Rex Hudler when I make the following statement: Rich Harden threw the best baseball game I have ever seen last night. I realize he lost his perfect game in the top of the 8th on a bloop single to Alfonso Soriano, but good grief, a complete game on just 81 pitches. That is amazing.
Give credit where credit is due -- Rich Harden was amazing last night.
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My good friend, Dave Rawding, who lives in the Bay Area, sent me an e-mail on Wednesday. The amazing A's run to end the first half has Dave, who was waving the white towel on Memorial Day, talking smack again. Here's hoping the Rangers get back on track during the next three days or they could leave the Bay Area in third place in the West.
That cannot happen since Trae and I leave a week for tomorrow for a week in California. Dave, if the A's leapfrog the Rangers, please be kind!
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Alright, I officially don't get it. I was reading a blog that shall remain nameless this morning and was confused when the blogger admonished his readers "to get out of the church habit" in order to swim with the fish. One blogger responded, claiming the idea to be so good, he would "skip church next Sunday and go hang out at the Waffle House."
Huh?
Here's the real waffle: when our antenna is so tuned to read culture that we sacrifice church. In the battle for conversion, who is converting who? Is culture converting church, robbing the kingdom of God of its intended uniqueness? Or is church still converting culture? Is church impacting the culture around it via the administration of mercy, justice and grace?
I fear that the lasting legacy of the Emergent/Postmodern movement will be an attention to culture that becomes an immersion into culture that leaves church looking no different from the dominant culture. Isn't that an affront to God's call to be "holy" (read: unique, different) in contrast to the culture?
Sacrificing holiness is the real waffle.
