Comments on: Blending Amish and 21st Century… https://brianharrisauthor.com/blending-amish-and-21st-century/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:16:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian https://brianharrisauthor.com/blending-amish-and-21st-century/#comment-21716 Mon, 24 Jan 2022 09:59:58 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3568#comment-21716 In reply to Greg Munyard.

Thanks Greg. Church can indeed be very wonderful and uplifting, especially when grounded in love and when what is offered is sincere. I think what my friend was lamenting was that it seemed (to him at any rate) that it was about making Sunday happen, rather than the richness of encounter with God and one another.

]]> By: Greg Munyard https://brianharrisauthor.com/blending-amish-and-21st-century/#comment-21714 Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:39:33 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3568#comment-21714 What’s church anyway Brian? Sometimes we need to reassess what we’re doing to ensure it’s the same as what God’s doing and what He needs us to be doing. Being hands on in Church services can become tiring, but in Romans 12: 6-8 Paul exhorts us to use our gifts and then in verse 9 he says, Let love be sincere, and because there is no punctuation in his writings, it could be taken that the exercising of our gifts in church is actually being sincere in love. What can be tiring is doing church insincerely, but recognising that when we love sincerely and do church sincerely as an expression of our love, then doing church seems rather uplifting.

]]> By: Brian https://brianharrisauthor.com/blending-amish-and-21st-century/#comment-21713 Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:03:28 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3568#comment-21713 In reply to Carl Handley.

And I well remember how wonderfully you served. Those were great years. Good to hear from you Carl.

]]> By: Carl Handley https://brianharrisauthor.com/blending-amish-and-21st-century/#comment-21711 Mon, 24 Jan 2022 05:56:59 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3568#comment-21711 I think that this is not a silly post at all. I don’t think I could go as far back as the Amish but I can remember a time when I first encountered Jesus, came to faith, jumped in to serve- often with fear and trepidation- and managed without a mobile, MacBook or social media! I think it may be another way. And after all we are people of ‘the Way’! Thanks Brian

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]]> By: Brian https://brianharrisauthor.com/blending-amish-and-21st-century/#comment-21702 Sun, 23 Jan 2022 13:26:41 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3568#comment-21702 In reply to Ruth Andre.

Totally agree Ruth. It’s about setting key priorities in place before they can be overrun by lesser demands.

]]> By: Ruth Andre https://brianharrisauthor.com/blending-amish-and-21st-century/#comment-21701 Sun, 23 Jan 2022 13:13:37 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3568#comment-21701 A time to disentangle replenishes our minds, souls and spirits. It seems that the lack of taking time out has made life more complicated and contributed towards other emotional and mental problems. Taking time out for a family to have a screen-free day is a great start.

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