Questions Are Holy – First Morning Questions
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So a nice little group gathered on Tuesday morning in the sanctuary to begin our new small group, Questions Are Holy. We took a little time to get to know one another since we had a couple of new folks and then we started brainstorming which questions we would like to explore over the rest of the summer. We are committed to walking around in the questions with the understanding that there are often no answers only generative questions and Holy Mystery. Here are some of the questions folks around the room offered. If you would like to offer more questions please list them in a response here and/or join us as we gather again. There are two groups gathering – a Tuesday morning group and a Thursday evening group.
Tuesdays at 9am est and Thursdays at 9pm est.
How old is homophobia in the Christian tradition?
Another: why do some people feel the need to beat a question or topic into submission? to find “rightness”
Is it possible to live in community while holding questions and answers in tension?
Well one question i’ve always wondered about what progressive Christianity exactly is unfrotunatly never got to find out?
I would also love to delve into questions of whether or not hell is real
And a loaded question I have is how and why did Paul gain so much power in Christian thought even when he seems to contradict Jesus at times
Why do we read the gospel through the lens of Paul?
And the whole salvation question…what are we saved from? what are we saved to?
I would like to ask questions about sin and what do progressive Christians think of the notion and what are the sins we would say are…
What is the difference between the concept of sin for a nonbeliever and a believer?
And to split a hair – what is sin AND how do we decide what are sins?
What about the difference between corporate and personal sin and sins of omission/commission…
Which is more important, right doctrine or right practice?
Maybe we can explore what we believe about sacraments – who can, what are they, can they be celebrated “virtually”…
What is authority, who has it, where is it found and granted?
How do we read scripture – literally or figuratively and how do we decide when and what is read differently?
What LGBT ordination means for churches, denmos and individuals?
What is church?
Can we talk about evolution vs creationism?
Why are denominations important and why does one stay in a denom that does not want them?