So i had some issues sleeping last night I think i was just really bothered! before I went to sleep I was reading some of one of the many books im in the middle of reading - Divine Commodity, Skye Jethani http://www.skyejethani.com/the-divine-commodity-3/ And was reading about community... and i keep having these glimpses of what things could be like!
I was reading about a communion service where they were invited to take the bread and walk across the room sharing it with someone who they felt seperated from because of conflict that may have occured! He says "The purpose of this was not to solve our differences, but rather to acknowledge our unity in Christ despite our differences!"
He says "The celebration of communinon is supposed to be an appetizer, a foretaste of the perfect unity and healing we will experience in the coming kingdom." This whole idea of Unity and looking past our dividing nature im like this is what its about where did we miss the point...
And i was thinking about my walk with Jesus and was like where have i missed the point!!! like how the heck did I get all my believes that I have?!? and as a church body what are we doing... as the church we need to be a Giant Jesus and im like we make church so much other stuff that it doesnt need to be! and all it does is hinders us from being Jesus to the people to our communities its not cool!!!!!!
How have we missed the point...
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I think churches and the huge variety of different styles and concepts that they represent perhaps illustrate the amazing creativity of God. I mean, we are all trying to follow Jesus and get a glimpse of what the kingdom might just be like here on earth. The fact that we have created some pretty decent monstrosities in both the way we believe and practice following Jesus is testimony to our humanness and the fact that we still need to be majorly transformed! So we keep praying...
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