"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).

Thursday, July 25, 2019

The New Spirit Or The Now Spirit?

"These churches become so painfully “politically correct” that any attempt to articulate a transcultural value judgment, a moral absolute, or a biblical truth is quickly shuttled away to a committee or task force (a representatively correct one, of course) instead of witnessed to the world. 

The church is to identify with the world’s needs, but not its desires. As St. Augustine pointed out, “We move spiritually not by our feet, but by our desires.” When our desires are shaped by the culture and not by the Spirit, we become children of the times, not children of the Spirit. The “new spirit” promised by the Scriptures becomes a “now” spirit. We are to be “at home” but not “at peace” with God’s chosen place and time for us. There is a basic incompatibility between the church and whatever time in which it lives.

- Leonard Sweet. AquaChurch 2.0 
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