Yes, I am named after a mountain not a moth (so I won't "spoil your earthly treasure", ha ha). I post under "Bogong" at a few other places like forums.ski.com.au, and on photobucket as "Bogongg" (two g's at the end, the correct spelling was already taken) so I didn't see why I should have a different name for this forum. Anyway, I have my picture up and I revealed my Christian name in my last post.
Thanks for your responses to my earlier post. I haven't been on this forum for a month because I've been pondering, trying to work out how I should properly live my life as a Christian. In a way, attempting to work out where I can comfortably sit on the metaphorical line between:
Joyless and dour Puritans who seem to forget the message that Christianity is a joyful, loving and giving faith and who do not fully embrace Christs command to love all people...
and Ultra Liberals who forget obedience to Christs command to honour God's will.
Obviously these are extremes and I doubt that any hard line Shakers, etc from the time of the English Civil war or McNab style "new religionists" at the other extreme, post here. All of us would be somewhere towards the middle of this range.
Each week I attend two different Anglican churches and while both could be accurately described as "evangelical" and sticking to the doctrine of primacy of scripture, one could be described as a little more 'pure' or literal while the other could be seen as aiming to inculcate the spirit, the gist, of the whole New Testament and more willing to look at the 'context' of the place and time that Paul wrote some of his more "finger wagging" letters. Both approaches have inspired me and contributed hugely to my maturation as a Christian, but I suspect I can't sit on the fence between the two for two much longer.
I'm probably arriving at position mid way between the two, but this pondering probably belongs in a different thread. I will drag this post back to relevancy by pointing out the importance of having a diversity of congregations available to newbies like I was last year, rather than people being adamant that their own approach to faith and living a Christian life is the only valid one. Anyway, it's 51 weeks today since I first opened a Bible and I don't think I need to say that the experience has changed my life.
