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03 May 09 - Welcome to The Porpoise Diving Life - a place that celebrates the moments of our earthly existence captured in photography that portrays the beauty of our world, our people, its creatures, colors, ups and downs, the inside and out. The meaningful, the meaningless, the awe, the awesome, the questions, the confusion, and the mystery that we inhabit....Welcome! Join us. Please take a few moments comment on other contributions to this site and add some of your own.
03 May 09 - Welcome to The Porpoise Diving Life - a place that celebrates the moments of our earthly existence captured in photography that portrays the beauty of our world, our people, its creatures, colors, ups and downs, the inside and out. The meaningful, the meaningless, the awe, the awesome, the questions, the confusion, and the mystery that we inhabit....Welcome! Join us. Please take a few moments comment on other contributions to this site and add some of your own.
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About The Porpoise Diving LifeSee an awesome shot that you think should be in our group? Here's the code: Copy code between lines below:  Please add this photo to the The Porpoise Diving Life group You can tag your photo The Porpoise Diving Life --- Post Four --- Award Two --- __________________________________________________________________ Jesus never promised us that our existence in this world and journey of faith with Him would be without pain, uncertainty, the unexpected, the incomprehensible and hardship. Perhaps there’s another dimension of truth to the Gospel message that people are yearning to hear that is outside the confines of a well-ordered, trouble-free, formula-based, prosperity laden, purpose-driven life. There is. It’s The Porpoise Diving Life ©. There is a flip-side to the “It’s not about you” theology from Warren that people are desperate to hear; “It’s all about us,” is the tag line for The Porpoise Diving Life © that appears to be terribly inviting to people, particularly when it’s coupled with the sub-title “Reality for the Rest of Us.” It’s about God, you and me. “It is time that we demand more of ourselves as Christians. We are the hands and feet of Jesus Christ, and if the world is going to see, feel, and touch him, it will have to be through us.”(1) It’s all about us! Life is filled with ups and downs, gasping for breath, playing on the surface and foraging for sustenance in the depths. People need to hear this truth from the Gospel through the life of Jesus that has practical application to their lives today, not conveyed as some sort of formula-based 40 day book that these people won’t even read. Jesus lived The Porpoise Diving Life©. Scripture proves that. The point to the above is that it captures an important theme of the book: our commonality as children of God. The Christian faith is so fractured and antagonistic in the western, developed world, it makes me weep. I’m not alone. To live a life filled with “ups and downs, gasping for breath, playing on the surface and foraging for sustenance in the depths” is really what inhabits the experience of most people. We need to celebrate the authenticity of this reality rather than hiding behind theological dogma that castes guilt and shame upon people whose life experiences don’t match up with the current trend of the necessity for a relationship with God that is evidenced by a well-ordered, trouble-free, formula-based, prosperity laden, purpose-driven existence. God loves the person who lives The Porpoise Diving Life© just as much as those immersed within the currents of mainstream evangelicalism. The message of The Porpoise Diving Life© is inclusive and inviting, rather than exclusive and divisive. |
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