"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Monday, April 21, 2014

Maddening Kind Of Christian

<blockquote>"There is nothing more maddening to the world than a free man or woman in Christ Jesus." (Brennan Manning. The Signature Of Jesus)</blockquote>

Applies to churches too. Those churches, people, leaders or ministers who get livid when you dare to not jump their hoops, serve their vision (they say Christ's vision- but it's their's), fill their vacant slots in the program in which they have need for you. You're often not really "free" in a church with vision. Because even if you are following a vision... it's not theirs, so you are accused of "having no vision".

Yep, those kind are mad.... at those kind of free people.
If we have been part of serving deeply in church we all have seen the "mad".

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