Breaking the silence
Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Henrik Korslind in Theology
The last couple of months have been busy to say the least.
At the end of 2008 I decided to end my employment at EFS-kapellet, Lund and headed back to Stockholm again. As I was preparing to return to Stockholm, Korskyrkan in Uppsala contacted me about a pastors vacancy opportunity and it turned out to be exactly what I’ve been looking for! Korskyrkan is part of Evangeliska Frikyrkan (EFK), a network of 314 congregations and with a huge work in some 45 countries outside Sweden.
But best of all though – I’m a happily engaged fella!
I will soon return to my blog – the list of future posts are growing (at least inside my head).
Amic
Mar 17th, 2009
Hey!
Nice blog, and congrats to good things happened in your life!
By the way, speaking of EFK-people and blogs, did you follow the discussion, recently, on some christian blogs about the church movement of Rob Bell (and also generally of the emeriging church in US)?
People who debated it was people such as the EFK-leader Stefan Swärd, and also bloggers on the Christian paper Dagen (eg. Jaktlunds marginalanteckningar). It was interesting! Especially people like Rob Bell and others seems to me open och radical at the same time, in a great way… Maybe the discussion will continue..
Greetings Amic
Henrik Korslind
Mar 22nd, 2009
Hey Amic and thanks a lot for the encouragement!
I have to be honest – I really haven’t been following the discussions going on the last couple of weeks. However I have read some of Stefan Swärds posts. Sometimes it seems as if the different sides/perspectives get stuck. I’ve read some books by some of the emergent church representatives. Far to often they paint a picture of the church that seems to leave out many of the positive things happening in the “traditional” church setting. For instance; have a look at “Shaping the things to come” in the chapter were they compare the traditional and emergent perspectives. It turns out to be very contrasted (traditional = bad, emergent = good).
At the same time representatives of the “traditional” view seems to mix the concepts (maybe because not even the emergent movement is sure about definitions). The apostle Paul knew how to communicate the Gospel in a relevant way. Take for instance the first altar to the Unknown God that was found in Athens. On the rock of the Areopag. It was the meeting place of the Athens Supreme Court of Justice. Paul had his famous speech where he used a language and illustrations that captivated the minds of those who listened. He knew how to find the keys that would open the heart!
I also find Rob Bell and others, to be radical, reminding the church to get the perspectives right once again. But I find it a bit difficult to see what the really big differences are. Take Brian McLaren for instance. As I heard him in Copenhagen a few years ago, I woman in the audience asked “What would be different if I came to your church, to visit?”. Brian answered that he didn’t really know if there would be any difference. It kinda makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
I’ll publish a post on some thoughts about contextual theology…
Grretings!
// Henrik