Earlier I posted Richard Rohrs daily meditation. It reflects so much of the learning and unlearning that Im doing in this season of my life. I wanted to post a longer quote from that meditation. We worshipped Jesus instead of following him on his same path. We made Jesus into a mere religion instead of a journey toward union with God and everything else. This shift made us into a religion of “belonging and believing” instead of a religion of transformation. The Faithwalking work had its start in the recognition that mostly (yes there are exceptions) the Christian religion in the U.S. rarely produces the experience of transformation. Weve settled for salvation - or what Dallas Willard calls the gospel of sin management - rather than expecting people who can live the kind of life that Jesus lived . . . powerful, compassionate, loving, courageous, inclusive, status-quo challenging. Im done with that. That gospel takes a small portion of the truth and makes it the whole truth. That partial truth often produces angry, small-minded, judgmental people who divide rather than unite, who exclude rather than include, and who ultimately contribute to the deep resignation and cynicism that is so prevalent in the world today. Jesus teaches us a way of life and when we follow that way, participating with him in that life, we are actually empowered to live the kind of life that Jesus lived. Or, I heard Dallas Willard say, We are empowered to live the life that Jesus would live, if he was living my life. Thats what Im going for.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:18:40 +0000
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