Comments on: “You are in fact built for great things. . .” http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/10/you-are-in-fact-built-for-great-things the Good News of Unitarian Universalism Fri, 18 May 2012 07:36:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Aaron Sawyer http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/10/you-are-in-fact-built-for-great-things#comment-9835 Aaron Sawyer Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:00:19 +0000 http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/10/you-are-in-fact-built-for-great-things#comment-9835 Nice web site! I'm developing my own UU web site focusing on a central place for minister blogs, comments, and podcasts- using Huffington Post as a model. I was hoping to create some sort of synergy with you. Possibly sharing content or linking with each other? I don't know. What are your ideas? What have you wished for in a partner web site? -Aaron Sawyer 818-235-3324 Nice web site! I’m developing my own UU web site focusing on a central place for minister blogs, comments, and podcasts- using Huffington Post as a model.

I was hoping to create some sort of synergy with you. Possibly sharing content or linking with each other? I don’t know. What are your ideas? What have you wished for in a partner web site?

-Aaron Sawyer
818-235-3324

]]> By: Jess http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/10/you-are-in-fact-built-for-great-things#comment-9833 Jess Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:35:30 +0000 http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/10/you-are-in-fact-built-for-great-things#comment-9833 I agree that section could benefit from some clarification -- I look at it as the idea that the church <em>by itself</em> cannot solve those things for a person. We can offer good resources, as you suggest, but it is, in the end, up to the individual to take an active part in making necessary changes. So, we offer the tools for a person to find their <em>own</em> cure, which, hopefully, is a better solution than one handed out on a silver platter. I agree that section could benefit from some clarification — I look at it as the idea that the church by itself cannot solve those things for a person. We can offer good resources, as you suggest, but it is, in the end, up to the individual to take an active part in making necessary changes. So, we offer the tools for a person to find their own cure, which, hopefully, is a better solution than one handed out on a silver platter.

]]> By: Shelby Meyerhoff http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/10/you-are-in-fact-built-for-great-things#comment-9832 Shelby Meyerhoff Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:17:11 +0000 http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/10/you-are-in-fact-built-for-great-things#comment-9832 Hi Jess, Thanks for selecting this. I appreciated the metaphor of "shelter from the storm." However, there were places where I disagreed with Rev. Johnson's characterization of what UUism can and cannot provide. He says, "Coming here will not fix your marital problems, improve your job performance, raise your grades, or cure your health problems." He may be saying simply that church does not offer a quick-fix for life's problems, and I would agree. But at the same time, churches can offer concrete services such as: marital counseling, job retraining programs, youth group, and healing prayer groups. Also, I have a funny story about how different Unitarian Universalists view God's role in the world. This very morning I got a call from a friend in another city. He had been driving along the road, about 9am in the morning, behind a car that had a bumper sticker: "Don't worry about it, God's in control." He rolled his eyes and thought "Oh, a Christian fundamentalist," only to be surprised when the driver ahead slowed down and pulled into the Unitarian Universalist church parking lot. Hi Jess,

Thanks for selecting this. I appreciated the metaphor of “shelter from the storm.” However, there were places where I disagreed with Rev. Johnson’s characterization of what UUism can and cannot provide.

He says, “Coming here will not fix your marital problems, improve your job performance, raise your grades, or cure your health problems.” He may be saying simply that church does not offer a quick-fix for life’s problems, and I would agree. But at the same time, churches can offer concrete services such as: marital counseling, job retraining programs, youth group, and healing prayer groups.

Also, I have a funny story about how different Unitarian Universalists view God’s role in the world. This very morning I got a call from a friend in another city. He had been driving along the road, about 9am in the morning, behind a car that had a bumper sticker: “Don’t worry about it, God’s in control.” He rolled his eyes and thought “Oh, a Christian fundamentalist,” only to be surprised when the driver ahead slowed down and pulled into the Unitarian Universalist church parking lot.

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