I love that he acknowledges that just because God has them on this particular path, doing church in this manner, does not make them right and everyone else wrong.

We need to be careful that we don’t fall into the trap of thinking we have heard from God and ours is the only way. Just as we need to apply grace to individuals as they grow in their journey with Christ, so to with other churches. The body is made of many parts and each must play a part.

For me, this took a bit of “unpacking”. I think my 21st century, western educated mind still likes to define terms, construct an intellectual model of the concept, & feel satisfied that I’ve “worked it out”.

But this stuff just sounds like nonsensical hocus-pocus, when you look at it that way.

It rings a bit like good-old-pentecostal “blab it and grab it”, or “name it and claim it”. Call it what you will. “God said it. I believe it. That settles it.” Right? Sounds glib. Actually, it sounds like positive thinking nonsense. Only a religious fruitcake living in some kind of deluded nutshell reality could spout that stuff & keep a straight face, when all around, reality keeps on adhering to the good old laws of cause-and-effect, gravity, and nothing will ever, really, change. (I think that’s roughly how Newton put it!)

But you are saying that reality flows out of relationship. You are saying that the key to unlocking the matrix is not in knowing the code.

No way can you spout this stuff and expect it to work, unless you are really, truly, connected to the risen Christ, the God of the Universe, the Author of Everything! This is the crux of our faith. This is the scary step of commitment. If HE is not Who He says He Is – Go back to Newton. But if He Is… that changes Everything!!