"Resistance Is Futile" borg
A friend of mine (an absolute reformer through and through) said to me last week, "ive been in resistance now for 12 years - resistant to this and that - but ive found that resistance only gets you so far, resistance creates space, that someone has to occupy" (something like that - you can shape it a bit and make it your own like i have)
So....... in resisting stuff that is increasing dead to us, in resisting flesh, in resisting empire, in resisting repetition.................we creat a space to do something, be something better, hopefully purer, hopefully real and capable of being a tranfroming force.
Forgive me if im repeating myself, but i dont believe this next bit:
"where yor feet tread - that ground is yours to take" yes, but not if we are just passing through, cause it will belong equally to whoever comes next. Thats why hit and miss evangelism or projects or those 'service' and community works things are really not going to cut it.
God calls us to Go - to enter in - and to establish..... Plant a Church? NO - ESTABLISH KINGDOM realities.
What are we entering into? anywhere the kingdom of God is not established and fruit needing to be the evidence of a tide that is turning at the hands of Gods people.
Finally - and this is splitting hairs as i dont believe in church planting ( 'construct imposition' )- but i heard recently ......... "there is also no biblical context for church planting, especilly where church already is."
In my town centre, there are 6 churches over 100 years old, all with tall spires and all in close proximity to the other, in some cases, less than a 100 metres bewteen them. It dawned on me - that 100 years ago my town was in its infancy, very few buildings, mostly residential, and here were these 6 huge buildings causing a very real offence to God - for all to see. Planting what we used to see as 'taking ground' by owning something in the flesh, and planting church buildings - but simply planting division and restraint to unity. And The Ground Bleeds.
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" . . .Thank You Father that You Have No Box - Except The Limitation Of Our Minds And Fears."
Not actually, sort of. God isn't really limited by us. But then again, i guess you could say that He does limit Himself in relation to our capacity. It kind of boggles the mind. It has been said that God offends the mind to reveal the heart.
i'll add to this and say that God offends the mind to free the heart.
"Heck - scuttle the ship - get everyone to the lifeboats. Follow the fella walking on the water."
Who says that we are even to have lifeboats? Maybe we're supposed to do like Peter did and get out on the water. Talk about "liquid church"!
As Jim Goll has said; "Faith is spelled R-I-S-K."
With that being said, i have to confess that i have a stronghold of wanting to have a pair of water-wings handy. Lord help me!
9:51 pm
nicely put
10:57 am
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