November 2007


I launched “Along the Shore” in December, 2006, to have an outlet where I could “speak my piece” on various issues. There were times when I became obsessed with the writing and interaction here … almost to an unhealthy point.

But I’ve been considering the following aspects of my life:

  • I don’t blog about church life nearly as much as I should. My blogging efforts should truly be focused upon Crossroads Fellowship. I’m making that change of direction as of today. I need to do a better job of promoting the ministries of our church.
  • Lately, I’m finding that I don’t have all that much to write about, especially on a denominational/theological perspective. My new collaboration at sbc IMPACT! is providing ample opportunity for me to speak to various issues on a less frequent basis. I think I will place all of my denominational blogging “apples” in that “basket.”
  • My church’s partnership with REAP North Peru (IMB) to facilitate a Church Planting Movement among the Pachitea/Panao Quechua people begins in January. I plan to launch an extensive blog to chronicle and promote that missions strategy in my church in December. I will do one final post that will give directions to that blog sometime later this month.

So, all those things taken together have led me to the decision that I’m “calling it quits” here on “The Shore.” I will leave the content posted here in place until December 1, when I plan to delete the blog in its entirety.

I’ve enjoyed the interaction and the friends that I have made here.

If you have active links to my blog from your site, I respectfully request that you redirect those links to http://sbcimpact.net, and please include a link to my forthcoming missions blog.

Blessings to all. It’s been fun.

Geoff

I used to be a fan of The Amazing Race.  It’s a pretty cool concept.  A dozen “teams” of two take part in a worldwide race against time, challenges, the elements, and airports in an effort to be the first team to the final destination … and the winner of one million dollars.

It’s been clear from the beginning that the producers of this program, as with most reality TV shows, are and have been obsessed with the normalizing and mainstreaming of homosexual behavior.  Each season has at least one, and sometimes two, homosexual couples.  Or, the show seems to take particular joy in televising a parent with a homosexual child.

But this latest season takes the proverbial cake.  The homosexual couple on season 12, which began last night, are Kate and Pat, lesbian “married” Episcopalian ministers from California.  They present a situation that is so horribly, terribly, Scripturally wrong on a multiplicity of levels.

So this new season takes the obsession to a new realm.  The producers have moved beyond taking homosexuality to the cultural mainstream.  Now they are trying to present it as “normal” within the context of Christianity.

No thanks, CBS.  I’ll watch some truly uplifting family programming over on ABC – Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.