In the beginning, there was a week and it began with a Sunday.
(In our western tradition it seems like the end of a week.) I, for some twenty years now, have gone to church on this day. I am not sure what the guys that invented it were intending, I can only understand it to a degree since I have no firsthand knowledge of the cultural significance. I think it was supposed to be a life infusion-ing thing. I would not characterize my experience exactly like that.
Most weeks I am disappointed. That may be a good symptom. Each week I hope that doing church will be something that it never quiet ends up being. I know umpteen ways to spin it so that I can be at peace with the rather dissatisfied feeling I am familiar with.
The oratory that I hear sounds like a pep talk for a corporate cubical inhabitant. Duty, rule keeping and the importance of the lowliest janitor is what I take home.
What I want is a sermon like; Jesus the Passionate Lover, Impractical Romantic Life or The hippies had it mostly right.
If you've read the story the bible has to offer, you would conclude it sounds like a soap opera; a melodramatic epic, not a clinical, mathematical formula.
I think church is for people who want to live like poets, not responsible members of the world.
Its a counter-culture. Its for vagabonds and pilgrims. The World is a place to hustle, but not be a insider or conformer or a sell-out.
Making a disciple is drawing somebody out, to hustle with you and the other highwaymen of the faith.
I guess I need to either leave where I currently attend or.....get a little crazy and possibly be asked to leave.
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Your wild and crazy friend The Abbess would love for you and your lovely wife and family to hang with ours as we get ready to close out our first year of not "going to church" and getting our hearts and heads around "being the church".
Really, really.
(you are so crazy honey) i like that i get to hang out w/ you and chew on what you think ~ good stuff. i kinda like the drones though, i want them to see w/ free eyes not the "responsible" ones. we're looking through a different paradigm (sp?) i guess...
Abi- back at ya!
Okay, so when are we gonna do it? ;^)
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