while preparing for the upcoming weekend, i couldn't help but reflect on the tension between doing and being. specifically, there is this tension between information about God and experiencing God. i call this an "informed" experience of God.
over the past decade there has been this evangelical thrust to "experience God," something i am all for and glad to see. how much of it is our own response to what may have been a dry modernism remains to be seen.
the question is, can we experience God in such a way that we find out more about the way he incarnates himself, not only in our experience, but in the experience of others? does God incarnate himself throughout the world today? does God incarnate himself in and through culture? this balance of an informed experience with God guides at this window of my life the way i pursue God--all the while he pursues me.
so, let's see what this week holds, what this day holds...
holding my breath!
Pursuit of Fulfillment
12 years ago
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Take a deep breath. Is that the ultimate experience of God? Is that when God is truly incarnate within each of us?
Tony
Spend one day adding “And that’s God too” to every situation & person you encounter…the homeless guy, the checker @ the store, the guy that cuts you off on the freeway, etc. Guaranteed that God will send some interesting people/situations your way to show His incarnation in others.
honestly, not sure what the "ultimate experience" of God is. Not sure it happens this side. no doubt God shows up in the "strangest" places, as Buechner suggests about his birth.
i would imagine God in and through us is ultimate. there is the biblical (actually not just biblical) notion of how one "entertains" strangers. perhaps the "ultimate" is how i treat the stranger among us, the Other i meet in every person, every day. God help me, no doubt!
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