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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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Wednesday
Feb042009

The Church of the Nazarene Will End in the Next 15 Years

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dove_transparent Here are my predictions.

If the Church of the Nazarene is to survive the shock waves of globalization sweeping around our world Americans within the denomination need to surrender their dominate positions within the church in favor of a growing and globally pluralistic power structure.

The next reformation will be the reformation of the 'outsider' of the 'other'.  This non-western reformation will tear down the grip of colonialism and prestige that many in the American churches wish to preserve.

We must humble ourselves, and assume the role of guide as our brothers and sisters begin to own the leadership and direction of our global denomination rather than fight it.

We Americans must have the humility to see ourselves as only a part of God's global mission field and be willing to accept aid and direction from foreign missionaries where we have lost our ability to navigate our own culture.

Where we have wrongfully assumed that our nation is specifically blessed by God for leadership we must repent of our arrogance.

We must strive for local impact informed by a global focus and mission.

If we continue to ignore the signs of the times indeed our time is short.

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Thursday
Jan012009

New Year Ramblings

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Start off your day by reading a my friend Joe’s post.

While I was commenting on his blog I had to fill out a ‘captcha form’ to prove I was human.  I felt the captcha today was very interesting so I saved it.

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That’s right, my captcha is ‘a test sin’.  That got my brain a whirling…

A test sin might be when my son looks back at me and smiles slyly as he proceeds to do the very thing I said to stop.

A test sin might have been the ‘original sin’.. “Honest God, I thought you were kidding!”

Speaking of test sins, I do not plan on making any new years resolutions this year.  However I am committing myself to considering thinking about the possibility of shaving regularly.  But that is about as resolution happy as I am getting.  I think most people bail-out on resolutions, not because of laziness mind you, but because they are scared of what might actually happen if they follow through.

If you exercise regularly you will get into better shape, which of course means you have to buy more clothes.  Even worse you might have to start to hang out with those super happy ‘fit’ people that are filled with ‘zest’ for life and drink their vegetables.

If you read the Bible through in the year and pray every day you might be inclined to actually do something God says.  What could be worse than finding out God has called you to minister in Northern Canada, Siberia, or Buffalo?

That’s enough tongue-in-cheekiness…

Predictions.

For 2009 I predict that I will still not mow my lawn more than bi-weekly, unless absolutely necessary, or the neighbor lady stares me down again.

I predict that this will finally be the year of the Kansas City Royals.  And by ‘be the year’ I mean we will go exactly .666 on the season and then lose our best two players to either the Red Sox or the Yankees, who will announce that in 2010 they will have a budget of 20 billion dollars.

That’s it for now.

Oh, I just noticed there is a correlation between shaving and mowing.  They are really very similar, perhaps my aversion to both is really a deep seeded phobia over cutting stalk-like objects?

DB

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Saturday
Sep062008

Emergent Village - Say it Ain't So

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I would like to begin by saying that I only discovered this by checking how many people subscribe to my blog's postings in Google Reader (6 by the way.)  However when looking at the number of subscribers for Emergent Village it revealed an interestingly infamous number:

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Don't let Hal Lindsay see this...

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