Day 123 - my guts churning.

Day 123 and the flu still has me down and out.
Hey - lost 6lbs in the past 4 days, so back to my optimal running weight.

Been trying to read away the hours.
Saturday had me reading 2 very helpful books, today's 2 books equally helpful.

Book #1
The Myth of a Christian Religion: Losing Your Religion for the Beauty of a Revolution @ Gregory Boyd.
Gregory Boyd stands in a camp of the Evangelical church that I best associate with - skeptical if not cynical. Not in a sinful/sarcastic way, but in a valuing critiquing way. Boyd doesn't cynically deconstruct leaving everything demolished, he attempts to build something new, better, truer.
This book takes his earlier controversy - The Myth of a Christian Nation - and veers it to radical questions of personal living.
Good read ....and despite people assuming his position is left rather than right - his position is centrally Christ and being authentic to His Kingdom.

Book #2
Becoming a Contagious Church @ Mark Mittelberg.
This revised edition with still too strongly a modernistic/formulaic/propositional approach to evangelism than I'm comfortable with still stabs and stirs in many ways. Mark starts by pulling no punches - contagious Christianity is only contagious as you are.
Am I living an evangelistic lifestyle?
When I shop, eat or run am I contagious?

Today I am ....this flu is highly contagious!!!
Sit around me and boom ....you'll have an instant weight loss gift!

But what about my faith, my belief, my Christianity ....sit around me and would you catch that also?

Mark's book might be too linear for me ....but his punch has me troubled.
Take them both together - Gregory's revolutionary lifestyle and Mark's call to being contagious - take them beyond books and reading to action and priorities ......yep ....being stuck in reading, has got my gut churning more.

And ...because I'm home more not only is my gut churning, my head hurts ....Carolyn has recorded back to back episodes of "7th Heaven" (aargh) .....whats worse sore gut or hurting head!!