Members rudywoofs (Pam) Posted August 31, 2014 Author Members Posted August 31, 2014 Are you saying that just because we are in heaven that when I pick up a saxophone I'll be playing it perfectly the first time? interesting thought... will "imperfection" be seen/heard in heaven?? Quote Pam Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup. If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony. Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others?
Administrators Tom Wetmore Posted August 31, 2014 Administrators Posted August 31, 2014 I think the answer to that may have a lot to do with a correct understanding of perfection. Jesus suggests "perfection" at each stage of growth and maturity. We can look at a perfect baby and recognize it has a lot of maturing before it can do many things we take for granted. I think we will be restored to our unblemished selves, but I think that which will be changed in us will be the removal of sin defects and scars. But I doubt we will be infused with all knowledge and all skills. I have often thought that learning new things and skills unecomberred by the burdens of life as we know it now will be such a tremendous joy. Learning for the joy of it! So I think we won't all be instant geniuses or masters of every endeavor or skill. We will have unecomberred opportunity to learn and master what is of interests us. And Imwould expect with an eternity ahead of us those intents will change over time. I think we will be more human, not superhuman. And on the original topic, humor is very much a human attribute. I do think it is hard to imagine humor scrubbed of the sin factor, just as it is hard to imagine life without sin, since sin has permeated everything in life as we know it. rudywoofs (Pam) 1 Quote "Absurdity reigns and confusion makes it look good." "Sinless perfection is such a shallow goal." "I love God only as much as the person I love the least." *Forgiveness is always good news. And that is the gospel truth. (And finally, the ideas expressed above are solely my person views and not that of any organization with which I am associated.)
joeb Posted September 4, 2014 Posted September 4, 2014 I told this joke when I preached the sermon today. Feel free to critique it whether it was a put down, offensive, or done at the expense of someone else. "On the way home after my last sermon in May, my wife informed and castigated me for its length. So I promised her to make that sermon seem so much shorter by making this one so much longer." (It seems everybody in the audience laughed.) Is there something wrong with poking fun at one's self? I don't think so. If we can't laugh at ourselves we are taking ourselves much too seriously. JoeMo 1 Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville
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