Open sea
French pilot and author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery once wrote, "If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean."
Mike Frost suggests that gaining a new and compelling vision for "church" involves stimulating a similar passion; a desire for the Spirit to lead us into the adventure of true Kingdom Expansion.
Ok...so...why...
...in all my struggles to re-imagine "church" do I still feel as if I'm still standing on the shore, face to the wind, smelling the salt, longing for the adventure to start?
I'm really tired of all this sand!
posted by Tomas Perez at 9:44 AM
2 Comments:
Hey Tomas,
Boy, can I relate.
Sometimes I feel stuck between the first and second halves of Proverbs 13:12 -- my heart feels like it is getting sick.
Then I realized recently my hope was in the wrong place. God reminded me I was hoping in that future, instead of hoping in HIm. Ouch & bummer, but glad to be re-focused. 1 Peter 1:13 is the verse that He keeps bringing me back to.
As an old salt (I spent 6 years in the Navy) I really appreciated your sea analogy.
Here's to longings fulfilled and trees of life springing up all over the place, bearing all sorts of fruit and bringing all sorts of healings to all sorts of nations!
~ Keith
Ahh my young Padawon Learner....maybe the question isn't in the "re-imagining the 'church'" but rather beginning to dream about you...you are the church...sail on
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