Sweet 23

Where is your favorite third place? It doesn’t have to be a coffee shop, of course. It can be any place that is not home and not the workplace. Is your church a meaningful thrid place? If so, what does it do to fill that need? If your church fails [...]

Sweet 22

How often do you seek community and connection on the internet? Are you involved in file sharing, social networking, group-edited Web sties and so forth? What does the virtual community on the Internet add to your life?
I am blogging right this very second! I myspace and facebook pretty much everyday. I don’t file share, but [...]

Sweet 21

Who acts as an icon in yourlife, inviting you to look through him or her to God? As a result of this relationship, do you notice yourself becoming more dependent on God?
Ii think there are three kinds of people who act as icons in my life. First, the poor. At my best [...]

Sweet 20

Think about some of the churches you have recently worshipped in. Has the rich, provocative image of Christianity been replaced by sterile, neutered spaces that seem more like physicians’ waiting rooms than temples?
This is the thing about modernly built churches – they are built cheaply and they have huge white walls. Institutional white – there [...]

Sweet 19

What are you doing to reveal the spiritual through the natural and the material of your life? Are you doing your own thing or the diving thing?
I love the way that Rob Bell eliminates the disconnect between spiritual and physical. They aren’t separtate, they are expressions of the each other. So when [...]

Sweet 18

Picture yourself in a future time when every person on earth has a personal mantra – three words or less that captures the essence of his or her mission. What would your mantra be?
break the numb.

Sweet 17

Think about the metaphors that guide your life. Are they Jesus metaphors, such as the overjoyed father who runs to welcome a lost child back home? Or are they manmade metaphors that point you in a direction other than Godward?
I can’t imagine that any of my major metaphors point anywhere but Godward. [...]

Sweet 16

As a point of note, I skipped one of the questions in Sweet’s The Gospel According to Starbucks because it involved an experiment with the TV and I don’t think I can apply it to my life without a household mutiny.
Think about the images that make God immediate in your life, that bring God close. [...]

Sweet 15

“Our ‘God is a consuming fire,’ ” reads Hebrews 12:29. but our experience of fire can either be the warmth of hearth and home, or a raging inferno of destruction and death. The “consuming fire” of God can either be our heaven or our hell. When did God last consume you in [...]

Sweet 14

Do you spend more time dreamin gor planning? Think about your life in light of carefully made plans. How much confidence do you place in your plans? Do you find security and comfort in carefully thought-out plans? And even when you have set forth elaborate plans in advance, how many times [...]