(At about 45:00 through his "Why multi-site?" podcast.)  "My point in showing you this historically is that every single church is on the contextualisation continuum.  The question is not, 'Will you contextualise?', the question is, 'What is the cutting edge of the year that you are on?'"  Some of his examples based on technology in use in our church buildings are: ...

Recent output from the Linux "fortune" command:

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Twain had obviously never tried mango or fresh pineapple, and his recollection of Genesis 3 was a little off as well! :-)

"It is impossible for us to break the law.  We can only break ourselves against the law."  -- Cecil B. deMille

Q: How many journalists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: Three. One to report it as an inspired government program to bring light to the people, one to report it as a diabolical government plot to deprive the poor of darkness, and one to win a Pulitzer prize for reporting that Electric Company hired a light bulb-assassin to break the bulb in the first place.

In the modern theology faculty fundamentalism is the great heresy. It is regarded as nearly as dangerous as the HIV virus and is treated with similar fervour but with rather less tact and sympathy. Fundamentalists will find themselves denounced in lectures and tutorials, and doubtless be encouraged to read James Barr's books on the subject.
-- Gordon J. Wenham