The Alpha Course : alphacourse.org
The Alpha Course : alphacourse.org
That is Alpha. Through Alpha, I found a church home within which to discover and love God, Kevin became baptised, the children have found a spiritual spring board, we all made new friends...
All this started at Alpha but really was fulfilled through Knox church, led by Pastor Kitson.
Alpha as a movement scares me. The rhetoric, the taste of propaganda... there are some inherent views I can not support. For this reason, I am not volunteering for the program after all. Maybe it's because I am new and uncertain in my faith. Maybe I don't have the maturity to publicly use what is good and simply ignore the rest.
It's a wildly popular and extremely successful Christian movement led by Nicky Gumbel. Nicky is an extremely charismatic leader (think of me, but older, male and the leader of a wildly popular Christian movement) who himself (in a different context) points out that Satan poses as an angel of light. Maybe I just fear my own strong but naive attraction to the light.
That is Alpha. Through Alpha, I found a church home within which to discover and love God, Kevin became baptised, the children have found a spiritual spring board, we all made new friends...
All this started at Alpha but really was fulfilled through Knox church, led by Pastor Kitson.
Alpha as a movement scares me. The rhetoric, the taste of propaganda... there are some inherent views I can not support. For this reason, I am not volunteering for the program after all. Maybe it's because I am new and uncertain in my faith. Maybe I don't have the maturity to publicly use what is good and simply ignore the rest.
It's a wildly popular and extremely successful Christian movement led by Nicky Gumbel. Nicky is an extremely charismatic leader (think of me, but older, male and the leader of a wildly popular Christian movement) who himself (in a different context) points out that Satan poses as an angel of light. Maybe I just fear my own strong but naive attraction to the light.
posted by Katrina Urquhart at 11:26 p.m.
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k3, you brought me to knox and back to god. it was at the tail end of last year's alpha. i remember your passion about it. i supped with you and kevin and dq and bats at the alpha dinner i watched a couple of the alpha videos. we did beta together. now i'm lining up to take alpha. as a participant i get to quest and to question and challenge and in turn be challenged. i know your concerns and i support you in your decision. i believe you're wrestling with god and moving deeper in your love for god. remember to demand god's blessing.
as for alpha, i'll see ya on the flipside.
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