Progressive Angst

Published: May 3, 2010, 6:09 a.m.

b'Geno Sisneros a staff member at St Matthew\'s and a student at Auckland University School of Theology explores the disturbing angst he has experienced as his beliefs shifted from those of his upbringing as a Pentecostal to being a card-carrying Progressive Christian.\\n\\n"I am reminded today of Jesus\\u2019 words in Matthew\\u2019s Gospel, \\u201cAsk, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.\\u201d[ii]\\nIn the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas, Jesus adds this disclaimer, he says, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed [\\u2026]\\u201d[iii]\\n \\nAnd disturbed I was. I begin to strip away the layers of literalism that formed my understanding of the Jesus message."\\n\\nText and video links at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=535&id=1063.'