Since the birth of Josiah a week and a half ago I’ve had just enough energy and short spurts of time to be catching up on some blog reading. The articles I’ve read along with some specific recent conversations have led me to some lingering thoughts regarding the idea and definition of what it means to be “missional”.
In the blogosphere and in some churches I’m seeing many utilize and customize the term to the point to where it is becoming as amorphous as “emerging”. I tend to agree with many definitions out there and observe many who are faithfully living out their unique role in God’s mission. However, just as many seem to be living the life more accurately described as a "fan" of missional. After several years of following the emerging conversation (which at its essence I believe is a healthy movement of ecclesial renewal) I watched a similar accumulation of people I would only consider fans.
I’m getting this idea of fanaticism from a snippet out of Dallas Willard’s Renovation of the Heart in which he says,
Fanaticism ---in art, politics, sports, or religion, to name some of the main kinds--- is the result of inherently meaningless lives becoming obsessed with performance and trying to take all of their existence into it. Being a fan of… is treated as something deep and important. Because those who do this do not have a whole soul directing their lives toward good, rooted in God, they allow a “flow” they find outside themselves to take over their thoughts, feelings, behavior, and social relations. That flow intoxicates them. They absolutize the flow and no longer subject it to ordinary tests of truth, reality, and tried and true human values.
(Renovation of the Heart, 203)
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This will be a great weekend to prime the pump and for some of you a great excuse to spend a fall weekend in colorful Colorado.
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Sequence to the morning...
Wake up and change a poopy diaper... (First time I've began my Sunday like that!)
...Fix myself and Angie something for breakfast
...briefly look over sermon notes
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