Comments on: Out of Sloth http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/ "In your concord and symphonic love, Jesus Christ is sung." • Ignatius of Antioch Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:01:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeremy Jones http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Jeremy Jones Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:50:20 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/#comment-312 Reggie: Great to meet you in Atlanta. Thanks for your honesty here and the story of how God has begun to bring you out. All of it rang true in a very personal way for me. God's Peace, Jeremy Reggie:
Great to meet you in Atlanta.
Thanks for your honesty here and the story of how God has begun to bring you out. All of it rang true in a very personal way for me.
God’s Peace,
Jeremy

]]> By: Administrator http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Administrator Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:35:53 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/#comment-304 Sensei, Every teacher like me needs a sensei like you, one who thinks of himself simply as the "oldest student in class." Thanks. Reggie Sensei,

Every teacher like me needs a sensei like you, one who thinks of himself simply as the “oldest student in class.” Thanks. Reggie

]]> By: bob elder http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/comment-page-1/#comment-303 bob elder Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:29:27 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/#comment-303 Are you a rarity among your peers? Your honesty along with humor and witty writing style make for some great reading. I'll bet most who peruse your blogs find themselves connecting with your story and similar events in their lives. Somehow I see a professor at a seminary as being stuck up and full of themselves. Yet you are true. You come to class and mess-up just like the rest of us and you take in stride as "that's just the way it is." Everyone in our class, no matter how long in training, has some technique they just can't quite get. Having all the students, as well as teachers, realize this, makes us all have the same row to hoe. Hopefully as I learn to communicate better I will be able to say something to you that sticks and the little light that goes off in your head will shine! Until then, hang in there. You may not realize how much progress you have made but it really apparent to me. You have come light years compared to the beginning. Bob Elder (oldest student in class) Are you a rarity among your peers? Your honesty along with humor and witty writing style make for some great reading. I’ll bet most who peruse your blogs find themselves connecting with your story and similar events in their lives. Somehow I see a professor at a seminary as being stuck up and full of themselves. Yet you are true. You come to class and mess-up just like the rest of us and you take in stride as “that’s just the way it is.” Everyone in our class, no matter how long in training, has some technique they just can’t quite get. Having all the students, as well as teachers, realize this, makes us all have the same row to hoe. Hopefully as I learn to communicate better I will be able to say something to you that sticks and the little light that goes off in your head will shine! Until then, hang in there. You may not realize how much progress you have made but it really apparent to me. You have come light years compared to the beginning. Bob Elder (oldest student in class)

]]> By: Michael Briggs http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Michael Briggs Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:30:48 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/#comment-294 What a great update Reggie. Glad to have you back. Thanks for bringing us along in the journey your on. Missed you in class last week. It is not the same without you. What a great update Reggie. Glad to have you back. Thanks for bringing us along in the journey your on. Missed you in class last week. It is not the same without you.

]]> By: Ken http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Ken Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:30:28 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/#comment-288 Hey Reggie. Your form cutting the bamboo looks really good to me. I'm a samurai movie fanatic, my favorite is called Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman. Can sword techniques improve a bat swing I wonder? Japanese guys apply the same discipline to their batting practice as swordsplay I think. Result is dudes like Ichiro. Im glad you are ok from the accident. Faking it till you make it is really hard for me. Lately, the antimonies of reformed theology are harder for me to accept than when I first read about them in Packers Evangelism and the Will of God(title correct?) 16 years ago. How does God really feel about the 99% lost Japanese I work with everyday? Does the resurrection matter to all of them or just some? How much can I really do to help them? That is my paralysis...my sloth right now. I hate the fact that I want to be agnostic about double predestination and covenant theology. I have been loved greatly by people on both sides of the fence. I dont want to sit on the fence! How important is it to try to solidify your position on these issues anyway. If I spend all my time and energy trying to teach the basic message of the gospel with japanese and never talk about predestination or covenant signs, my work will never be over. Yet my PCA upbringing has put a set of eyeglasses on my soul that I cannot easily remove. I dont like dissensions or distrust either, we dont have time for those things. This is really stream of consciousness, sorry. Former RTS student. Faking it to make it Japan. Hey Reggie. Your form cutting the bamboo looks really good to me. I’m a samurai movie fanatic, my favorite is called Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman. Can sword techniques improve a bat swing I wonder? Japanese guys apply the same discipline to their batting practice as swordsplay I think. Result is dudes like Ichiro. Im glad you are ok from the accident. Faking it till you make it is really hard for me. Lately, the antimonies of reformed theology are harder for me to accept than when I first read about them in Packers Evangelism and the Will of God(title correct?) 16 years ago. How does God really feel about the 99% lost Japanese I work with everyday? Does the resurrection matter to all of them or just some? How much can I really do to help them? That is my paralysis…my sloth right now. I hate the fact that I want to be agnostic about double predestination and covenant theology. I have been loved greatly by people on both sides of the fence. I dont want to sit on the fence! How important is it to try to solidify your position on these issues anyway. If I spend all my time and energy trying to teach the basic message of the gospel with japanese and never talk about predestination or covenant signs, my work will never be over. Yet my PCA upbringing has put a set of eyeglasses on my soul that I cannot easily remove. I dont like dissensions or distrust either, we dont have time for those things. This is really stream of consciousness, sorry.

Former RTS student. Faking it to make it Japan.

]]> By: Carla Waterman http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Carla Waterman Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:44:42 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/#comment-287 Hi Reggie, I’m so struck by the order of your “tipping points.” You first affirm what is true, even when your world is shouting something else. I hear “if indeed Christ rose from the dead, then everything matters” as a version of “Lift up your hearts,” –that gracious movement of the soul that turns the heart up and out again, away from the imploded loss of perspective that is such a symptom of sloth. And then, you open your hands (or maybe, in the case of the mustang, unclench your fists). And in the dying to the mustang, the Lord is able to fill your hands with simple gifts that you may not have recognized as such without the prior reorientation of heart and hands. You can love the communities that love you back, and see signs of hope in the midst of a community that you love even as it is struggling. And finally, you go from the paralyzing passivity of sitting in front of SportsCenter (that was your description) to the high-ranking controlled finesse of slicing through a tatami mat. It’s a form of the Lord raising you to life again that I’d never quite considered before... While I respect the uniqueness of our souls, sins do have signatures. And in your blog I find myself reflecting on the path Jesus has made for us to come back one more time. Carla Hi Reggie,

I’m so struck by the order of your “tipping points.” You first affirm what is true, even when your world is shouting something else. I hear “if indeed Christ rose from the dead, then everything matters” as a version of “Lift up your hearts,” –that gracious movement of the soul that turns the heart up and out again, away from the imploded loss of perspective that is such a symptom of sloth.

And then, you open your hands (or maybe, in the case of the mustang, unclench your fists). And in the dying to the mustang, the Lord is able to fill your hands with simple gifts that you may not have recognized as such without the prior reorientation of heart and hands. You can love the communities that love you back, and see signs of hope in the midst of a community that you love even as it is struggling. And finally, you go from the paralyzing passivity of sitting in front of SportsCenter (that was your description) to the high-ranking controlled finesse of slicing through a tatami mat. It’s a form of the Lord raising you to life again that I’d never quite considered before…

While I respect the uniqueness of our souls, sins do have signatures. And in your blog I find myself reflecting on the path Jesus has made for us to come back one more time.

Carla

]]> By: Amy Stewart http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Amy Stewart Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:57:07 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/#comment-280 Hi Reggie, Your post rings so true to me. I remember in class when Carla would talk about sloth, it was as if she was speaking directly to me and to me alone. It's a daily battle for me to not slip into that place of "it just doesn't matter." Thank God for people in my life, like my dear husband, and my crazy schedule, that doesn't allow me to stay there too long. amy :) Hi Reggie,

Your post rings so true to me. I remember in class when Carla would talk about sloth, it was as if she was speaking directly to me and to me alone. It’s a daily battle for me to not slip into that place of “it just doesn’t matter.” Thank God for people in my life, like my dear husband, and my crazy schedule, that doesn’t allow me to stay there too long.

amy :)

]]> By: Scott http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Scott Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:27:51 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/#comment-277 ". . . live as though you know truth is true, until you find yourself believing it. Sort of a sanctified 'fake it till you make it' philosophy." While the effort cannot be of my own effort--God is the source and I am in need of Him doing that work through His Spirit--something about speaking the truth to shed light in a dark place does have merit. And some day God will bring from the place where I ". . . simply have to articulate truth that I know to be true despite my internal disengagement from its reality" so that God may bring to the place where I live and walk out that EVERYTHING I do DOES matter in the eyes of my Christ. He engages the disengaged, brings hope to the downtrodden, heals the soul as well as the body, renews my mind, and so much much more. This was a good word for me, especially applicable to my present circumstances, and though we have not met I feel that I do know you a bit through my sister-in-law, Carla W. She mentioned that your blog might speak to me this day. Praying your strength . . . SRK “. . . live as though you know truth is true, until you find yourself believing it. Sort of a sanctified ‘fake it till you make it’ philosophy.” While the effort cannot be of my own effort–God is the source and I am in need of Him doing that work through His Spirit–something about speaking the truth to shed light in a dark place does have merit. And some day God will bring from the place where I “. . . simply have to articulate truth that I know to be true despite my internal disengagement from its reality” so that God may bring to the place where I live and walk out that EVERYTHING I do DOES matter in the eyes of my Christ. He engages the disengaged, brings hope to the downtrodden, heals the soul as well as the body, renews my mind, and so much much more.

This was a good word for me, especially applicable to my present circumstances, and though we have not met I feel that I do know you a bit through my sister-in-law, Carla W. She mentioned that your blog might speak to me this day.

Praying your strength . . .

SRK

]]> By: Greg http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Greg Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:53:27 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/#comment-276 Reggie, what a blend of insight and comedy- I love how real you are not just in the blogosphere, but in the classroom. Interesting that you brought up Larry Crabb- his book <i>The Silence of Adam</i> is pretty much just focused on this idea of sloth- choosing to live and not just sit back- very much like your chapel message. Also, love that you named your car Lucille...gotta respect the king! Reggie, what a blend of insight and comedy- I love how real you are not just in the blogosphere, but in the classroom. Interesting that you brought up Larry Crabb- his book The Silence of Adam is pretty much just focused on this idea of sloth- choosing to live and not just sit back- very much like your chapel message.
Also, love that you named your car Lucille…gotta respect the king!

]]> By: Vicki http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Vicki Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:20:27 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2007/10/28/out-of-sloth/#comment-271 I'm so incredibly glad you're back. You make the world a much nicer place for people like me. It's not uncommon for people to get stuck after a traumatic event. I was stuck in a vortex for seven very long years after Jesse's death. There were times along the way that I thought maybe I was "back", but I'd quickly find myself back in the land of I Don't Care. It's a beautiful thing to feel like yourself again, isn't it? Vicki I’m so incredibly glad you’re back. You make the world a much nicer place for people like me.

It’s not uncommon for people to get stuck after a traumatic event. I was stuck in a vortex for seven very long years after Jesse’s death. There were times along the way that I thought maybe I was “back”, but I’d quickly find myself back in the land of I Don’t Care. It’s a beautiful thing to feel like yourself again, isn’t it?

Vicki

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