Time and again, I have heard it said that I am "a nice guy". So who do we blame for our temperament? Those of you who are new to the whole Christian scene may or may not know that one's Temperament is a very popular way of psychoanalyzing one within Evangelical Christianity. This idea developed during the middle ages from earlier Pagan Concepts visible amongst Greek philosophy and culture and brewed along by the Islamic Moorish conquest as well as early Church Father's admiration of the rationalizations of Greek P. and C. The Catholic Medieval establishment basically baptized the whole Greek cosmology and and etc. and so you get a human anatomy divided up into 4 parts like the Greek Cosmos was divided up into Fire, Air, Water, and Earth. We no longer accept this view point as accurate, yet Evangelical Christians have bought hook, line and sinker that we have Black Bile, Green Bile, Phlegm, and and these four liquids rule and define our nature. The most popular names who use these labels would be Tim La Haye and his wife Beverly La Haye (who often lectures ladies on this topic) and even Dr. James Dobson, renowned Child Psychologist.

It seems that some people feel that a modernist, scientific basis for analyzing our strengths and weaknesses in character would contradict scripture, so let's settle for something which has no basis in medical science. We do not advocate cures as Christians based on draining excess or Bile or Phlegm so why do we buy La Hayes' Christian Pop-Psychoanalysis as Biblical or even laudable? We no longer use offensive terms once popular in society to describe certain groups of individuals even though long cultural use seemed to lend us the right to do so. Why then would we still label someone as Choleric or Sanguine when we know good and well, there are plenty of Good English words which are not based on the science of people who accepted a flat earth.

Well, now you have heard me rant! Still think I am a "nice guy"?

Steve Cornell

Celebrating Life's Meaning...

We celebrated Easter (or Resurrection Sunday as some want to call it) with our 2 house church groups meeting at our neighborhood park down by Sarasota Bay. There were about 18 of us representing both the Sunday evening group and the Wednesday evening group. There were Three families and the rest were singles. We talked and talked around the picnic tables and camp chairs and there was even a reporter from the local paper. She was investigating House/Simple church for her paper's coverage of the issue of alternative forms of doing church/faith/Christianity. Already the past week she had interviewed me as I am, in a way, internet spokesperson for our groups. She was able to speak to the leader of the Sunday group, John, and to a missionary who is supported by our group who was there with us.

Flash! Guess how much more money the churches could give away if they didn't have buildings to support and/or clergy to pay salaries to?

Anyway, we ate together, celebrated communion together, and prayed for each other all down by the bay! And I promise you, we kept it simple and people got blessed!

Hope your time was Blessed as well!
Steve Cornell