Comments on: Observations on young Baptists http://youngbaptists.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/observations-on-young-baptists/ where a younger generation can speak to the issues we all face as Christians Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:59:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: David Lowrie http://youngbaptists.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/observations-on-young-baptists/#comment-20 David Lowrie Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:42:15 +0000 http://youngbaptists.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/observations-on-young-baptists/#comment-20 Thank you for cracking the door and giving us a glimpse into tomorrow. For one the future looks good to me if you represent the reality that you will be pursuing. Although I am 47 my hearts beats with yours in more ways than my gray hair might imply. The Kingdom of God is bubbling up all around us. We feel the fresh wind of the Spirit. It's my prayer that He will blow within "the system" and their might be a "re-birth" within the old structures. I take to heart Jesus' warning about "old wineskins", but I also believe that there is much good and right about cooperating together. I resonate with the tension we face in living out our faith in a fallen society that needs us to have the ethics and passion of the prophets of old, and also to preach the good news of the Kingdom that calls us to "repent" for the Kingdom of God is near. McKinley's book "A Beautiful Mess" speaks a good word for us all about returning to Jesus' passion of the Kingdom, a Kingdom not in Dallas or Nashville, but a Kingdom established in heaven and in the hearts of those who have taken up their cross to follow the King. David Lowrie Thank you for cracking the door and giving us a glimpse into tomorrow. For one the future looks good to me if you represent the reality that you will be pursuing. Although I am 47 my hearts beats with yours in more ways than my gray hair might imply.

The Kingdom of God is bubbling up all around us. We feel the fresh wind of the Spirit. It’s my prayer that He will blow within “the system” and their might be a “re-birth” within the old structures. I take to heart Jesus’ warning about “old wineskins”, but I also believe that there is much good and right about cooperating together.

I resonate with the tension we face in living out our faith in a fallen society that needs us to have the ethics and passion of the prophets of old, and also to preach the good news of the Kingdom that calls us to “repent” for the Kingdom of God is near.

McKinley’s book “A Beautiful Mess” speaks a good word for us all about returning to Jesus’ passion of the Kingdom, a Kingdom not in Dallas or Nashville, but a Kingdom established in heaven and in the hearts of those who have taken up their cross to follow the King.

David Lowrie

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