Our Journey So Far
Friday night was great. It was a strange mix of feeling like just yesterday since I've seen all these people and yet feeling like it had been an eternity, all at once. So much has happened and we feel like we've changed so much, but being in the company of so many loved ones has a way of wiping away the years. We were laughing and talking right away.
I tried to convey my heart and our passion about building the right foundation for whatever form a church may take in the future. I'm not yet sure how well I did. I talked mostly about the same things I've tried to share in other places. It's just so hard to really articulate the total shift in paradigm that I see happening within what we call church. Jesus describes the quantum change he was bringing by saying, "New wine must be put into new wineskins..." (Luke 5:38). I feel like this is the place we're living in. The container for what we do must go through dramatic change.
It's not impossible that someday, at some point, we'll work with something that looks like what we'd all recognize as a church. But I feel like that is a far way down the line. Maybe not in years (but maybe), but definitely in practice. I want to be part of a community that is wholly devoted to mission - not meetings. Churches are nearly always formed around meetings, getting that Sunday morning service started. Maybe that is still a great method, but I just can't go back to thinking and doing that way. I have such a clear vision of it in my heart, but the right way to describe it and make it clear to others is still alluding me. We just have to take each tiny little step as it comes.
For now, all I can offer to those who are feeling this same restless stirring - this same, "there has to be more than this" - this same sense of God's call is:
Let's follow Jesus together. Let's get reconnected to what it means to be his disciple. Let's listening intently to the voice of the Good Shepherd and let's dare to do whatever He whispers. If this journey leads us to the same upper room with the same purpose and the same thrust of the Spirit upon our lives - well, that's going to be a lot of fun.
Scott Bane
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Well said! In this post as well as on Friday.