The church system is stuck. Admission is the first step forward. Informing, conforming and believing are what the modern church system are built on. You know what? I haven’t gotten any push back on that statement? I haven’t gotten one email, tweet or fb comment that people want to challenge the last several posts. But there is pain being expressed because many of us are still neck deep in the modern system and would love to try and make changes. I have heard from several friends, “but what about us Ron do we just abandon ship and all the people on it?” Fair questions and fair concerns.
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Memorizing the bible, going to church, growing in the knowledge of Jesus or even living more like Jesus. But THESE are many of the things we are told spirituality is all about. Spirituality is about seeing. Pure and simple Jesus walked around the earth inviting his followers into a new awareness, a new seeing and new way of connecting to real full life.
Repeatedly he invited the disciples to note weeds, trees, wells, water, seeds, soils, birds and… a zillion other things. Why? He was bringing them into a heightened awareness an awareness that would click them off autopilot so they could be awake. Jesus DID NOT do Torah bible studies with the disciples (though he did do readings in the temple). He didn’t ask the disciples to live according to the current rule set established by the religious leaders of the day. He didn’t ask them to memorize or buy into even one doctrinal position to follow him. He didn’t check to make sure they complied with a “lifestyle statement,” alcohol consumption clause or tobacco usage policy.
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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.
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