I walk because three miles an hour seems to be the pace God keeps. It’s God speed. A Physical Discipline Bio: Mark Buchanan is a professor and award-winning author. He and his wife, Cheryl, live in Cochrane, Alberta. He is the author of eight books, including Your Church Is Too Safe, Hidden in Plain Sight, and Spiritual Rhythm. Koyama was born in Tokyo in 1929, of Christian parents. He later moved to New Jersey in the United States, where he completed his B.D. at Drew Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. at Princeton Theological Seminary, the latter on the interpretation of the Psalms of Martin Luther in 1959.[2]

We walk because three miles an hour, as the writer Rebecca Solnit says, is about the speed of thought,2 and maybe the speed of our souls. We walk because if we go much faster for much longer, we’ll start to lose ourselves: our bodies will atrophy, our thinking will jumble, our very souls will wither. urn:lcp:threemilehourgod0000koya:epub:a0d4744c-53ab-4266-bbe1-f8d0d71bb044 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier threemilehourgod0000koya Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1rg6033s Invoice 1652 Isbn 0883444739 Lccn 79024785 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-7-gc75f Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9470 Ocr_module_version 0.0.11 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA18488 Openlibrary_edition If you place that way of thinking about God-as-slow and time-as-for-love, and place it beside the experience of people living with advanced dementia, we can begin to see how important it is to be Christlike in the ways in which we care. This is my brief true story of a time in my life when I took a walk for Jesus.This journey began at highway 55 and Butler Hill road. I began walking up the ramp and praying to God this prayer. God you know I cannot walk to where ever you wish me to go. Would you please send me a ride and the person you desire me to talk to. Half way up the ramp a young man of college age stopped and offered me a ride.He then began to tell me all about his life and the church he attended which is the First Baptist church Of Festus. But, as we discovered in chapter four of our study, the Lord Jesus Christ is the New Temple. Everything in the Jewish system is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. He is the Temple. He fulfills the priesthood. He is the fulfillment of the Law. He is the Final Sacrifice. Jesus fulfills everything that was held sacred by the Old Covenant: the Law, the Priesthood, the sacrificial system, the Temple – all of it was being fulfilled in Jesus. Though this woman was shut out and couldn’t go to the Temple, in Jesus Christ the Temple was coming to her!!

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When you begin to think about that, it challenges those who think that God is only interested in speed, productivity, and efficiency. Jesus, who created the universe, the God who throws the stars into the heavens, is a slow God — a God who takes time to love. When you begin to recognise God in this rather counter-cultural way, things begin to change.

In Pete Scazzero’s Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book, he names this struggle as number six of the top ten of being emotionally unhealthy; “Doing for God instead of being with God.” “The messages were clear: Doing lots of work for God is a sure sign of a growing spirituality. It is all up to you. And you’ll never finish while you’re alive on earth. God can’t move unless you pray. You are responsible to share Christ around you at all times or people will go to hell. Things will fall apart if you don’t persevere and hold things together. Are these things wrong? No. But work for God that is not nourished by a deep interior life with God will eventually be contaminated by other things such as ego, power, needing approval of and from others, and buying into the wrong ideas of success and the mistaken belief that we can’t fail. Our activity for God can only properly flow from a life with God. We cannot give what we do not possess.”

You can guess where Buchanan takes this. We hear a little bit on Gnosticism (“incarnation’s mortal enemy”), followed by the preposterous assertion that the “Christian faith” once had “a corresponding physical discipline” but “then lost it.” And this discipline, of course, was walking. There may be no reason for this. But I have a couple of suggestions. First, Jesus walked with God. He was living into and working out of His own relationship with the three-mile-an-hour God and took all the time He could get. I wish that Buchanan had done more to tease out the implications of a “slow God” who condescends to us, walking with us at the speed of love, which is also the speed of thought. Alas, he does so only very intermittently. Instead, in his first chapter, he makes a move that left me scratching my head and tugging at my beard. Under the subhead “A Physical Discipline,” he tells us that the “seed of this book was annoyance, or grief, or something in between.” What caused this feeling? Well, you see, “many spiritual traditions have a corresponding physical discipline and Christianity has none. Hinduism has yoga. Taoism has tai chi. Shintoism has karate. Buddhism has kung fu. Confucianism has hapkido. Sikhism has gatka.” But Christianity? Zilch.