Spilled Wine / Spewed Wine - in response to chris stone's Wasted
Chris's blog -see link, has an article about a dream where he saw blood being spilled out of churches
Totally - people are indeed being spilled out but what a mess - blood all over them - some it belongs to jesus - some of it belongs to them as often a critical point of woundedness is what it takes to relocate them back into life - but at what cost. I think that the people leaving the church are spilled wine - thats what happens when you put new wine into old skins - but this is different - these people are more spewed that spilled because the tough old skin refuses to split - indeed it is heel bent on not rupturing at all (strongly believing it has flexibilty to change through adjustment and the that the box has corners as yet un explored?)- so - people are either spewing or spilling, the spilling ones are those who have managed to not loose sight of their 'newness' the unique and distinctive things in them that have refused to be commodifeid or their raw energy watered (also called not coming under authority - also referred to as being unwiiling to submit to leadership - submission at times spelt s l a v e r y). What make me puke - is the energy that God must employ to help them in their recovery and detox - to be fully up and running again - and its here that i ask God to pour out his grace and healing most. My friend Shannon has a deep passion to see the church as a whole healed and restored as do i, but like jesus said to people who had gotten used to their illness as they stood by the pool in hope of a shimmer and fighting their way into the blessing of God "do you want to be healed"......... and thats to the people who knew they had a sickness!!!
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