Ideas

As I have begun visiting various "core leadership" in our church, I've discovered there are many with a whole host of good ideas. Ideas are good. We need ideas. What my hope is that over time, we can recreate the context from which those ideas come. IOW, ideas flow from some way of seeing the world, what is commonly referred to as "paradigms." In our particular part of the world, pragmatism appears to be one of the highest values. We rush to ideas. Yet...I wonder....

What if we caught different visions, identified the deep roots of life, those things so basic to the way we live life that we rarely ever stop to ask, "Is this the only way to see?" If the radical story of Jesus concerns itself with a radical difference in the way we relate to this Divine God, then the way we relate to self and others probably will be radically different. "If a grain of seed falls and dies," seems to be the theme.

The life of the church extends from the ongoing and ceaseless activity of a Spirit that penetrates the deep places of every person open to walking the Way. Ideas are great...but what about the corridors of the soul from whence those ideas flow?