knock, knock. who's there?

okay, I've been keeping this blog for over two years now, and gotten bits and pieces of comments in that time, but little in the way of sustained dialog or conversation. I know people read these thoughts intermittently - I get emails here and there, or even passing comments from the people who are local. And I appreciate each and every one.

When I first started this blog, I had two ideas at the forefront. The first was that I wanted a new way to "jot" down my thoughts, my struggles, my joys, and my growing and ever-evolving thoughts on God - in essence, I saw (and still see) the way I was living as an on-going commentary on my theology of God - who He is, what He has said, and what He is calling the world, and specifically the people He continues to call to be part of the Church to be doing. Life is theology.

Secondly, I wanted to create some space for people to consider my thoughts, and offer their own (yes, I realize that there are many such forums, and who am I to expect that this particular stop on the blogosphere would be any more enticing than any of the others available).

All of that's to say, that if you're reading this, please feel free to interact. Leave a message. I blog as I feel personally (and perhaps divinely) inspired. I don't do it every day; nor even every week. The fact that I am blogging today has little to nothing to do with the fact that I blogged yesterday. There is no system to my blogging. I'm not trying so much to convince people that I'm "right", as much as just tell people what I have come to believe, and am struggling to believe. Faith is like that, I think. I'm not entirely interested if someone is "liberal" or "conservative". In point of fact, I consider those categories, those labels to be misleading. I'm seeking to be Biblical in the context where God has placed me. I want to explore the strange new world of the Bible in the context of the strange new world in which we live.

Are you out there? Are you offended? Are you bored? Are you put off? Are you willing to think? Or are you so full of blind faith, or perhaps oppositely atheistic, that you have a box so small there's no room to by which to grab hold and crawl out into the light? That's not an insult, but it is a call to wake up, to see that God is bigger than we often allow Him to be. He's dangerous. He's threatening. And most of all, He loves us.

Join this conversation. I'm holding the door for you. Come on in...