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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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Saturday
Feb212009

Don’t Let Him Keep You Down

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ghost town_cropped God is still pushing me ‘out there’, further down the lonely road of leadership.  It’s not easy, but every once in a while you come out of the forest long enough to see the view, and it is breathtaking.  The problem is I have a back-seat driver, a thorn in my flesh.  I know it’s not popular to believe in Satan; some would rather I take some medications and explain him away.  I know he exists and that In the road-trip of life he is the unwelcome tag-along.  Sure it was fun having him around at first, he scored me the free-99 sunglasses at the truck stop way back when.  Lately though he just wants to keep my eyes off of the views and where I am headed, to instead keep my eyes on the rearview mirror where my past is crystal clear.

I know he’s tagging along with you too.  You want to kick him out but he finds a way to hold on, to sneak back in at the next rest area.  But I say don’t let him keep you down.  Use those times of pain to keep your pride in check, but don’t ever let him fool you into thinking your story is back there, in the past.  The past is his favorite time.  If it wasn’t for our pasts Satan wouldn’t have a thing on us.  Don’t let him define you that way.  Don’t let your story be the E! True Hollywood version he wants you to remember.  For us, for those on the narrow path our concern is the present and future.  What are you doing right now so that you can move into the future promise God has already given?

Don’t let him keep you down.  As C.S. Lewis said let those damned thoughts go, for they will truly lead to your damnation if you dwell there, in the past.  Embrace your story, remain humble, but embrace what will come.  Don’t let him keep you down.

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