Scott’s Thoughts: Taking a Break

Taking a Break

>> Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Hmmm. Blog posting has become increasingly sporadic and far less "deep" lately. The truth is that I'm doing a lot of deep thinking about life, God, family, church, culture, etc. But so much of my thought process in the past couple of months has been unfinished and incomplete, and a lot of it has been triggered by my involvement with other people's circumstances (and therefore not really the kind of stuff I can share here).

So I'm officially taking a bit of a break from blogging. It won't really be a big change, since I haven't been too serious about posting lately anyways. But my plan is to step away for a while, retool the blog, and eventually return with a redefined purpose. Will it be a day? A week? A month? Who knows?

In the meantime, you can always catch me by e-mail -- scott.heine@gmail.com

See ya later...

1 comments:

Brandie February 20, 2009 at 1:07 AM: Sometimes I struggle with what to share on my blog. I'd love to be completely uncensored (sp?) but that is often isn't possible for countless reasons. I wish my blog had more depth but it's hard to know how to do that...then there is my struggle with time. It's hard to be introspective when your pant leg is getting pulled - constantly. Hope that makes sense.

Anyway, I understand! Enjoy your break - sometimes they are very much needed.

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"Real theological thinking, which is thinking with the mind of Christ, is hard to find in the practice of ministry. Without solid theological reflection, future leaders will be little more than pseudo-psychologists, pseudo-sociologists, pseudo-social workers. They will think of themselves as enablers, facilitators, role models, father or mother figures, big brothers or big sisters, and so on, and thus join the countless men and women who make a living by trying to help their fellow human beings to cope with the stresses and strains of everyday living.

"But that has little to do with Christian leadership because the Christian leader thinks, speaks, and acts in the name of Jesus, who came to free humanity from the power of death and open the way to eternal life. To be such a leader it is essential to be able to discern from moment to moment how God acts in human history and how personal, communal, national, and international events that occur during our lives can make us more and more sensitive to the ways in which we are led to the cross and through the cross to the resurrection."

(Henri J. M. Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership (New York: Crossroad, 1998) pp. 65-67

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