Creativity / Theology / Culture / Spirituality
Sunday I will speak in Cape Town to a large group that forms the core of a church plant that is a genuine attempt to think and be in different ways. The services are more facilitated conversations than preaching events, web 2.0 technology is increasingly informing the conversation creating a church 2.0 environment. I love their willing spirit and drive to be Jesus in the worlds in which they live in.
Here is the video to open the 2 week conversation I will be doing on doubt.
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Transformation – a shift in the way we see and make meaning of ourselves, others and the world. I keep saying this but will again, this is different than a changed point of view or of being open to others opinions.
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This definition requires us to include meaning making as part of our formational definition. The way a 7 year old makes sense of the world is different than a 15 year olds which is different still at 21 years old. We consider these shift crucial to health and well being. If a 15 or 21 year old still thought there were boogey monsters under their bed like they did at 5 we would consider something wrong. [read more...]
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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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