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How do we incarnate the body of Christ in this new frontier, this increasing wilderness? What do the roots of Christianity, of the apostles first forays into the world have to say for the church today? These are the questions that drive me. How are we to be the church in a culture that has forgotten the ways of Christ?

The call of the church today is to abandon its fortresses and to become nomads, following the breath of God as he fills the world with life; to pursue the shadow of an unrelenting and unceasing God that is passionately reclaiming what is his. I want to understand how he spoke through his first apostles as he called together and formed the body of believers in the upper room with his holy fire. I want to inhabit the words and minds of the ancient theologians and mystics that sought God above all else. Through all of this though I want to gain an understanding on how to inspire, lead, and bring others along on the narrow path, to one day see the new heavens and the new earth in all their glory, and to see the face of my savior and embrace his feet in awe.

This journey is both intimately personal, and at the same time impossible without being in community with other believers and unbelievers alike. For truly as the gospel states we all have sinned, and fallen short of God’s glory, but praise be the cross is sufficient for all who embrace it’s story.

-David

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Sunday
Feb152009

Don't Say This Word...

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Jerky'Interesting' has become so watered down in our language to the point it is almost meaningless, or when used often implies the opposite. An elementary art teacher looks at yet another piece of art with Green and Red paint smeared across it.  It is the 5,000th iteration of the same painting, only the artist changes.  She says to the child, "that's interesting."  When in fact she is really saying, "if I have to look at another piece like this I will probably start eating glue myself." We are with a friend at a restaurant, a coffee shop, playing a game and they are going on and on about some topic that you could really care less about.  When they pause you say, "that's interesting."  When in fact you are really saying is, "I have not been paying attention for five minutes and have instead been thinking mostly about the really good muffin I had last tuesday." A husband is sitting and watching TV while his wife tells him about her mishap at the mall involving the thee year old, a shopping cart, and some form of body lotion.  When she stops and asks her husband, "are you listening" he responds by saying, "that's interesting."  When in fact he has not heard a single word and has been sitting there the whole time thinking, "I really like beef jerky." All of that to say, if we are ever together and you say, "that's interesting" you are in trouble.
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