Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Revolution
There is a revolution on the horizon. House to house. Soul to soul. The fire of the Spirit saws in the wind of change. There’s a revolution coming in the blue floor of the night. The church is changing.
The ageless soul of the church lies buried inside thirsty ground. The traditional approach has been to build the church through the pulpit. But the church is older than the pulpit. The church created the pulpit. The sermon is not the voice of an isolated individual. We've been in the shadow of the pulpit too long.
This is not a slam against the church. It's more like an emergent longing. And the way I learn to live with myself is to be a part of a community of believers who aren't trying to control me with their rules, but are helping me transcend this bag of skin and bones, making me into what I long for most--to become a loving and caring person.
www.stofel.com
The ageless soul of the church lies buried inside thirsty ground. The traditional approach has been to build the church through the pulpit. But the church is older than the pulpit. The church created the pulpit. The sermon is not the voice of an isolated individual. We've been in the shadow of the pulpit too long.
This is not a slam against the church. It's more like an emergent longing. And the way I learn to live with myself is to be a part of a community of believers who aren't trying to control me with their rules, but are helping me transcend this bag of skin and bones, making me into what I long for most--to become a loving and caring person.
www.stofel.com
© 2007 by Robert Stofel
2 Comments:
I think all of us want to hear from a loving and caring person everyday and all the time. No person can be that. We all know the only one who can.
God is constantly transforming HIS people in preparation for "THE WEDDING SUPPER OF THE LAMB" Which means change will always be with us. Sometimes we have to RELINQUISH the forms of the past in order for the HOLY SPIRIT to bring forth the fresh purposes of God. Yes He's the same yesterday, today & forever, but we live in a world that isn't