Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Randomness on being Church

Some thoughts of mine from June 08 jotted down whiles restling with "what is this thing we do called church" and why I'd come to be so disillusioned with it and what I was coming to realize about what really matters.

The only relavent Truth is Truth lived out -Wayne Jacobsen

Love God, love people
Encounter God in one another
BE not DO
Learn of him.
Live in him.
Have an encounter in him.
Live in encounter with him.
Be his encounter to those around you.

Jesus is not an example/model to follow, He is a life to be lived through us.

On being intentional:
Intentionally Be Who I am. Intentional Tension

Disciple...
Problem with terms, definitions
Jesus didn’t ask them to reproduce a model, but to teach and make lovers of himself
Not a hierarchy
We all need each other wherever we’re at
“levels” and “subgroups” should not be divided
New can learn from old, old can learn from new
Revelation downloaded in all

When does it end? When do we graduate to being a discipler or disciplee? We all are both. Teaching each other to be who we are.

Love God Love people…. simply

Everyone who knows Jesus IS part of the Body…. They don’t need to work toward that, just to realize it

We don’t know what it means to be the Body. We’ve been super brain washed by American how-to-do-church. We don’t even know what it looks like to function as the Body. We waste so much time with systems and formulas, it leaves little space for real Body Life. We don’t trust the Holy Spirit to really lead. We have misconceptions about leadership and discipleship. We’re too focused on results and goals, that simply loving on Jesus and waiting on him without a quantifiable result seems like we’ve failed somehow.

Poop on religion

Not about changing the “agenda”,… its about throwing the agenda OUT. ugh…. How do you change a mindset? It has to be a revelation from the Lord.

When asked if I didn't want to continue with the Bible Study... It's not a matter of wanting to continue or not… how can we stop being the Body? It’s a matter of realizing who we are

No levels
No scales
We just are
I want to know it like I know how to breathe

I’m nobody and I’m everybody. We are One Body!

Most cleverest incites taken from Wayne Jacobsen www.thegodjourney.com

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