I am becoming concerned that the Organic Church Movement / Emergent Church etc etc is becoming moribound in talk, yet we the talkers are not really living out the incarnate life of Christ that we trumpet so much. Website after website, blog after blog is full of chatter about this life on the other side yet we seem to be trapped into the mindless talk and analysis from which we were trying to flee from the modernist Church. One of the most irritating, frustrating (and in the end, the most depressing) things about church was the endless fads through books, seminars, articles, conference speakers which we rushed to and fro from, with out getting down to the nitty gritty of daily Christian Living. Yet I sometimes wonder if on the other side we are are even worse at this.
It's all talk and no action
All Information does not equal Knowledge. Most Knowledge comes from Experiance. We are being once again packed full of Information but have little knowledge of the Kingdom we are seeking
Its like the Native Bush is New Zealand. In the bush are some of the largest trees in the world such as the kauri, and some of the most beautiful ferns in the undergrowth. But alongside these are thousands of creepers such as Cumulous which is a parasite which creeps around all the trees and strangles them and lives off these plants. I wonder if all this talk is becoming a bit like these Creepers. Enough of them will strangle a Kingdom.
I realise that I am most probably a creeper and that does bother me. I have given away the ownership of the discussion group, and am considering flaging the website to try and do my bit to save the forest so to speak.
For what we share to have the power to transform and bring change it must come from the experiance of what ever we are talking about.
