What is the crux? We all want to experience a deep joy, sense of purpose and a deeply moored sense of wholeness. I think this is the essence of the life Jesus said he came to bring. I have come that you might have more and better life (perissos zoe) than you ever dreamed… John 10.10.
If the crux of the matter is we all crave this sort of deep life, how do we experience it? Well once you connect to Jesus, once you allow your narrative to be re-shaped and re-molded by his (this is the essence of conversion) then the process of engaging a new sort of life begins. This is the essence of the word we so often throw around called transformation.
For too long transformation has been associated or even equated with acquiring more information, more bible verses, more doctrine, more learning, more bible study and more sermons. But most of us realize information in doesn’t equal transformation out.
Our love affair with information is a distinctively modern dilemma, this clearly couldn’t have been an addiction in the pre-Guttenberg era. Technology has increased the availability of knowledge. Our surfing of the latest technologies lulls us into a false sense that we know more and are therefore growing and more transformed?
Think about your life. Are you caught in the information = transformation equation?
