Emergency church
It is always interesting to see the conversations developing at this time around our purpose as a people. What is encouraging is that we are at last talking to each other and that creates sparks of opportunity.
When Jesus came and instituted the church as a part of His body, it was clear that He saw an emergency and hence what I would like to call the "Emergency church" as opposed to just emergent, although I am thrilled and exstatic, that "emergent" and "emerging" are part of our time.
When we open our hearts to the emergency of our situation and begin to see the need to accept,love,forgive,care,feed,disarm, open our eyes,question and open ourselves to the Sustainer of all - The Holy Spirit, then I believe we are becoming the Emergency church. When we close down and move into our "holy huddles", it is with sadness that we miss the whole point of Christ's coming.
Let's wrestle some more with our understandings and listen to each other, and then discern when it is a voice of one calling in the wilderness and when it's not.
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imminent yet unpanicked
Hi Peter. Thanks for that - for me the emergency is an acknowledgement that G-d sees every instant of our lives, therefore His coming is upon us right this second.
But I would be a little demure about taking on the element of panic often associated with emergencies, for the opposite is also true, G-d will forever be coming upon us.
And theres the riddle about waiting for G-d, which I as an activist find a hard thing to do.
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I am with you on this. The emergency has been around for 2000 years and more and I am certainly freer in the waiting.
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