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As we try, together, to imagine and experience what a fresh expression of the church could look like in our context, culture, and community, I believe that metaphors are going to be important. They'll help us look at things with a sense of focus and clarity without becoming dogmatic or rigid. They'll create a channel for our little group of friends to flow forward with and push up against. They'll enable us to hold our ideas loosely and with generosity being lost in a sense of adventure.
"Church" is a loaded, difficult word for me and many others. But actually it's become easier as I've started to think of it by using metaphors instead of hard and fast meanings. Jesus did this a lot. When he was asked to give a definition of the Kingdom of God he always seemed to respond by telling his audience not what the Kingdom was but what it was like. It is like a man who plants a field. It is like a mustard seed. It is like a woman who loses a coin. What do these really mean? You decide. And that may just be part of the point. In some ways Jesus was allowing individuals to use their own imagination to interpret and discover a plurality of meanings. Metaphors make it possible to take a fresh, creative look at objects that may be common place or worn out.
There are several basic metaphors that are, from the beginning, part of our core understanding of how we relate to God, to each other and to ourselves. They're not so interested in communicating what it is...but what it is or might be like..Three of them that seem clear to me at least are:
> Church as Art. Church as Community. Church as Transformation.
Each one of these builds on the other. Hopefully we're going to explore each of them not just theoretically but through shared experiences and mutual discovery. (owing a stiff tip of the hat to Troy Bronsink for the specific articulation of this metaphor.)
Church as Art.
I believe that this is actually one of the most foundational pieces of moving forward with people trying to live in the way of Jesus. Here's several quotes about "art" and "God" that I've found inspirational:
"Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb…the most active and dynamic of all? …It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God…" –Mary Daly (theologian)
"We must accept that this creative impulse within us is God's creative pulse itself." Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Why should we all use our creative power….? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money." Brenda Ueland
"It is the task of art to undo the work of our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits…making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us…" Marcel Proust
What Art Means to Me
Anthropologists define art as "the creative use of imagination to interpret, express, and engage life, modifying experienced reality in the process."
To put it in my words:
Art is approaching life with a degree of authenticity, imagination, and experiment.
In this process, one often births "artifacts"–visible reminders of the places we have been and the beliefs we have held.
Art isn't just limited to paintings, sculpture, drawing, music, etc… (though it certainly can include those). Actually art is simply creativity expressed.
Why is this important?
Believe it or not we don't see the world as it is, but actually as we believe it to be. We're constantly engaged in interpreting our environment through a complicated series of images and the framing stories that we tell ourselves. When our ability to engage those with imagination is damaged, we begin to interpret the world in harmful and unproductive ways.
Culturally, few of us are immune to the lack of creativity that dominates Western culture for the last 250 years. Left brain thinking is taught, reinforced, and invisibly upheld as the dominant way of viewing the world. Newtonian science has instructed us to see the universe as a great clock-like machine. Enlightenment inspired creationism has maintained a view of God, actually not as creator, but as machinist or cosmic tinker. The professions that were most desirable in the last two centuries have been ones that could processed accounts, calculate numbers, memorize tombs of law, and treat patients with cold dispassion. This sort of rigid thinking has led to the worst wars known to man, the most destructive weapons capable of being used, and a general lack of wonder, mystery, and awe towards the universe. Without imagination, fear, NOT hope, takes over. We become territorial, isolated, and repressed communities or individuals.
The solutions we are often offered for our world problems are as calculating and cold as the last, failed, set. In fact, some have commented that the central aspect of Western culture today is the failure to create anything new–caught in a holding pattern where regurgitation is the only option. For something to change…well…something's gotta change.
And something IS changing:
Celebrated Wired Magazine contributor Daniel Pink offers that: "Until recently, the abilities that led to success in school, work, and business were characteristic of the left hemisphere. They were the sorts of linear, logical, analytical talents measured by SATs and deployed by CPAs. Today, those capabilities are still necessary. But they're no longer sufficient. In a world upended by outsourcing, deluged with data, and choked with choices, the abilities that matter most are now closer in spirit to the specialties of the right hemisphere - artistry, empathy, seeing the big picture, and pursuing the transcendent"
Imaginers NOT Managers
"The spiritual life of the West, which is impoverished and depressed, could be seen as a failure to engage with imagination". The Bible is approached boringly, with absolute literalism. Church boards or elder councils are filled, not with artists and imaginers but with managers and pragmatists. On and on it goes…while the spiritual life of the West starves; not for lack of truth but for lack of imagination on how to engage and express that truth.
Simply put, if religion (in the best sense) hopes to address the needs of the world today, hopes to relate to God in anything but dry ritual, hopes to experience lasting renewal it must reactivate it's view of God as Artist (literally Creator), of spiritual community as Art (literally the product of imagination, experiment and authenticity), andindividuals as artists (those who labor to conceive and birth visible expressions of hope and love.)
Was Jesus Creative?
Some people will challenge the concept of Church as Art purely on the basis that they fail to see Jesus as a cultural creative. I think this may be only seeing part of the equation. Consider that the earliest communities of Christians thought it was important to remember 34 miracles the Master performed and not one of them was a repeat of the one before. Consider that Jesus' profession might accurately be called "story teller" because of his preferred mode of communication. Consider that a number of times he compelled his students to think creatively about how they would approach this world. Consider that one of his apprentices would later remember Jesus' ministry with a word that roughly translates as "artwork"…pictures…symbols…we read this word in John's gospel as "signs".
I'd suggest that viewing Jesus as an artist and provocateur may be one of the most important shifts in transitioning from a shame based Christianity to one that is hopeful and filled with a sense of wonder.
Unblocking
This will require some unblocking. Most of us mistrust our creative sensibilities. Imagination is culturally another word for "fake" or "not real". Many of us have been so conditioned to think critically (not creatively) that our inner critic is a giant compared to the grasshopper that is what our imagination has shriveled into. In order to approach the deep issues facing the world currently, in order to live and participate in community and maybe even in order to approach God in a journey of transformation, we may need to simply learn how to approach a blank page or a canvas or a lump of clay. The liberation of one area of creativity will allow for the release in other areas also.
So…let's be creative…let's explore and discover and then express those monumental and mundane artifacts the Spirit flowing through us will generate. And most of all, let's learn to re-engage God, each other, and our selves with experiment, authenticity, and imagination…
Church as art.
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I like the principle behind this a lot. The principle of finding new metaphors that get us to think and to connect with God and each other better. Church IS a loaded word for a lot of people. I find it sad and a little frightening to see how many of my friends are disenchnated with church. I really like where you are going with this.
One thing I try to keep in mind is that church is primarily about loving God and loving people. Our strategies and our metaphors might get old and ineffective, but God's love never goes out of style.
Thanks for the comment rod. Metaphor has become increasingly important to me. Somehow, I find, that--not unlike a great painting or sculpture--they allow us to go many different places, to be carried to unknown destinations, and discover something about ourselves. That's one curious element when you start to approach things in an artistic way--it really does reveal something about the viewer.
Anyhow, if you want to read or interact more, you can find me most any day over at my blog: www.sensualjesus.com or in the Portland, OR area where I am helping pioneer a redemptive experiment in church called The Lazarus Collective. Cheers!
The concept of "church" has been ruined in our age - first and formost the church is the body of Christ - that doesn't represent all but "one Christ", "one Lord"... And we must remember that the metaphors used in the article refering to Jesus talking about the Kingdom of God - Jesus is NOT allowing and encouraging a variety of ways to view the Kingdom but emphasizing the "great value" of the Kingdom of God - in each case the something more precious is the Kingdom of God not a plurality of view of the Kingdom of God.
Dan, hey thanks for the feedback. I feel like I know exactly where you're coming from. I've stood and uttered those exact same words at least. FB Meyer, a great holiness preacher of the 19th century made a comment about the church only being useful so long as she was a conduit for Jesus Christ, for his focus, for his attentions and passions...otherwise she was nothing. I feel that's the place I've come to. I understand that "church" as I've experienced it, and so many others have, has been debilitating and crippling--still, so have countless other elements in our lives that have and continue to be redeemed and put to higher use. One of the ways that Church is Art, is that art means something different to each viewer--and what it means actually says more about the viewer than the art or the artist. In the same way, I've found that many of the the things I placed on church were actually more or less related to me...to my daddy issues, or even my issues of self loathing. It's not to say that there aren't real and legitimate problems needing to be addressed, because there are...but instead, is saying that I am also complicit in that problem and therefore must be part of the solution. That's where I go with it.
I see your point about choosing not to regard Jesus' statements in loose artistic form but more as definite statements of value or worth...I, at this moment in time, just don't see it exactly like that. But I do know where you're coming from, and I hope that it is challenging you, changing you, and changing the world through you.
Cheers
Dan, hey thanks for the feedback. I feel like I know exactly where you're coming from. I've stood and uttered those exact same words at least. FB Meyer, a great holiness preacher of the 19th century made a comment about the church only being useful so long as she was a conduit for Jesus Christ, for his focus, for his attentions and passions...otherwise she was nothing. I feel that's the place I've come to. I understand that "church" as I've experienced it, and so many others have, has been debilitating and crippling--still, so have countless other elements in our lives that have and continue to be redeemed and put to higher use. One of the ways that Church is Art, is that art means something different to each viewer--and what it means actually says more about the viewer than the art or the artist. In the same way, I've found that many of the the things I placed on church were actually more or less related to me...to my daddy issues, or even my issues of self loathing. It's not to say that there aren't real and legitimate problems needing to be addressed, because there are...but instead, is saying that I am also complicit in that problem and therefore must be part of the solution. That's where I go with it.
I see your point about choosing not to regard Jesus' statements in loose artistic form but more as definite statements of value or worth...I, at this moment in time, just don't see it exactly like that. But I do know where you're coming from, and I hope that it is challenging you, changing you, and changing the world through you.
Cheers
Brittian,
I so appreciated your article. It is so where I am right now. In fact, I had just downloaded your article and printed it out on the day that I was presenting a new women's group opportunity to our church: To creatively discover who God created us to be, to discover and experience creative ways of prayer, and to look at how God communicates through metaphor. I believe we were all created in the image of the Creator God and are all creative. Our culture (schools, church...) has focused so much on reason and logic that we've left the right creative side of our brains to atrophy. It's good to know that others are stepping outside the box and exploring their faith in new ways.
@ Dan,
I think you are right on. The church is the body of Christ. It is the visible expression of Jesus to the culture around us. We don't have the freedom to translate the church in any way we (as artists) see fit. That luxury is left up to Scripture.
If I approach Jesus' teaching from the perspective of art, then the interpretation of what Jesus says is left up to me. Dan, I totally agree - the parable is highlighting the worth of the Kingdom. He doesn't leave it open for other interpretations. I'm glad that understanding scripture is not up to me.
Ps. 119.130 "The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple."
Take Care,
@Donnie,
I think there may have been a misunderstanding of what I was essentially saying. First, when I observed that Jesus often used metaphors in his speaking, I wasn't making a comment about content, or denying the reality of what he was speaking about--but merely making a literary observation about the language he chose to utilize. Second, by pointing out he often spoke in metaphors I was not saying that what he was saying was some how less real or less important. There is a rather boring notion of linguistics that anything worth saying is worth saying plainly or simply in the most direct way possible. This really doesn't stand up to any historic reading of human literature since the dawn of written communication. As Father Anthony DeMello used to say, "The shortest distance between the human heart and Truth is a good story". Story, like metaphor, doesn't just come right and out and tell you what to think--but instead allows the hearer to do the thinking and the processing and the concluding on their own. That process is incredibly internally revealing. This is why Jesus' parables were so powerful; they were not just saying something about Jesus and what he believed, but the conclusions that the listeners came to said something about them as well--something that often revealed the motives of their heart. Now, notice--I still didn't say a word about the content of Jesus' message, only how he often went about communicating it. And I think in some ways it goes to the heart of what a great many people feel has been "wrong" with Christianity over the centuries. As Richard Rohr put it at Soularize, "we have taught people what to think but not how to think!" This is a huge disservice--and one I don't feel is reflected in jesus' own enegmatic and inspiring teaching and living. He was less concerned about dogmatic definition of terms and more about getting to the heart of the people he was dealing with; less concerned about giving them pin point positions and polemics than perhaps we would be inclined to do. Again, I reitterate--my point wasn't to say that Jesus' words were meaningless--but rather to say he wasn't spelling them out in the same way--oh I don't know--an accountant might.
As far as your other point, and the heart of what I think might actually be the true concern, do we have the freedom to translate the church any way we see fit? I would counter that regardless of freedom, taking the words "should" or "ought" out of the equation, we DO translate church. We are constantly interpreting. That's why you have countless denominations, different type of groups, and a variety of expressions of the church. Which one's the right one? Now, that's not to say there aren't more or less healthy embodiments--because there truly are. And it's also not to say that our personal interpretations shouldn't be challenged by the Text, by the community of believers (both historic and immediate) and by the Holy Spirit--because they should be. Hopefully we are BEING transformed--not merely transforming religion as WE see fit.
But, none of this was actually the premise I was writing about. I was essentially using different language to state an age old truth--we must allow the Holy Spirit to move in us--to create in us--to stir and fan our hearts. We must follow God, and that--very often--is a blazing of new trails, going into new territory. In that new place, we must use every faculty granted to us; and certainly among those there is a place for Authenticity, Creativity, and Experiment. Surely, as I am engaging in God's New Creation (literally New Artwork), the Body of Christ, something about me will be revealed and I will be changed in His likeness.
In the end, this may not be an important metaphor to you--however it is to me--and is to many people who have been marginalized by other metaphors which have often been overemphasized to the point of exclusion.
Cheers,
Brittian, thanks for this article. In my life, metaphors have been very important tools for discovering truth. As God reveals more and more of what reality is supposed to be like to me, I'm learning to see and explain those truths in metaphors that make sense to me.
Here's an example: Repentance. It's not about "feeling sorry." That's contrition. Being contrite is a very biblical and important thing, realizing that sin hurts people and God and feeling regret over having chosen it. But confusing repentance with contrition makes it impotent.
Repentance is like this: When you realize you're caked with sin inside and out, and you want God to fix you, it's like when you're walking in the woods and you find an old glass bottle half buried in the dirt. You see it's filled with mud and rocks and caked with mud inside and out. You take it home, turn on the garden hose, and start hosing it off. You can hose off the outside until it's clean enough to lick, but then you need to hose off the inside before it will be fit to drink out of. You've got to turn the mouth of the bottle toward the water stream. Doing that, you hose it out and let the water run until it's clear. But then you notice it's still got big rocks rolling around inside, limiting the INTERNAL CAPACITY. Before you can fill the bottle up with clean water and use it yourself or give it to others, you've got to get the rocks out, so the bottle can be truly full.
Repentance is deciding to keep your bottle pointed toward the healing stream of the Water of Life long enough for Him to rinse you inside and out, and then get the rocks out so you will be completely full and ready for others to drink the Water in you. But as they drink, you'll need to go back to the Source to be refilled over and over. Repentance is just keeping yourself pointed toward the Source of Living Water: it's about orientation, not about an internal mood.
Only as you get clean do you realize how dirty you were, but at that point, it's just more fun to celebrate getting clean than being sorry that you were once dirty.
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I like the principle behind this a lot. The principle of finding new metaphors that get us to think and to connect with God and each other better. Church IS a loaded word for a lot of people. I find it sad and a little frightening to see how many of my friends are disenchnated with church. I really like where you are going with this.
One thing I try to keep in mind is that church is primarily about loving God and loving people. Our strategies and our metaphors might get old and ineffective, but God's love never goes out of style.
Posted by rod | Posted at 01/31/2009 10:42 AMThanks for the comment rod. Metaphor has become increasingly important to me. Somehow, I find, that--not unlike a great painting or sculpture--they allow us to go many different places, to be carried to unknown destinations, and discover something about ourselves. That's one curious element when you start to approach things in an artistic way--it really does reveal something about the viewer.
Anyhow, if you want to read or interact more, you can find me most any day over at my blog: www.sensualjesus.com or in the Portland, OR area where I am helping pioneer a redemptive experiment in church called The Lazarus Collective. Cheers!
Posted by Brittian Bullock | Posted at 01/31/2009 11:05 AMThe concept of "church" has been ruined in our age - first and formost the church is the body of Christ - that doesn't represent all but "one Christ", "one Lord"... And we must remember that the metaphors used in the article refering to Jesus talking about the Kingdom of God - Jesus is NOT allowing and encouraging a variety of ways to view the Kingdom but emphasizing the "great value" of the Kingdom of God - in each case the something more precious is the Kingdom of God not a plurality of view of the Kingdom of God. Posted by Dan | Posted at 01/31/2009 4:29 PM
Dan, hey thanks for the feedback. I feel like I know exactly where you're coming from. I've stood and uttered those exact same words at least. FB Meyer, a great holiness preacher of the 19th century made a comment about the church only being useful so long as she was a conduit for Jesus Christ, for his focus, for his attentions and passions...otherwise she was nothing. I feel that's the place I've come to. I understand that "church" as I've experienced it, and so many others have, has been debilitating and crippling--still, so have countless other elements in our lives that have and continue to be redeemed and put to higher use. One of the ways that Church is Art, is that art means something different to each viewer--and what it means actually says more about the viewer than the art or the artist. In the same way, I've found that many of the the things I placed on church were actually more or less related to me...to my daddy issues, or even my issues of self loathing. It's not to say that there aren't real and legitimate problems needing to be addressed, because there are...but instead, is saying that I am also complicit in that problem and therefore must be part of the solution. That's where I go with it.
I see your point about choosing not to regard Jesus' statements in loose artistic form but more as definite statements of value or worth...I, at this moment in time, just don't see it exactly like that. But I do know where you're coming from, and I hope that it is challenging you, changing you, and changing the world through you.
Cheers
Posted by Brittian Bullock | Posted at 01/31/2009 5:04 PMDan, hey thanks for the feedback. I feel like I know exactly where you're coming from. I've stood and uttered those exact same words at least. FB Meyer, a great holiness preacher of the 19th century made a comment about the church only being useful so long as she was a conduit for Jesus Christ, for his focus, for his attentions and passions...otherwise she was nothing. I feel that's the place I've come to. I understand that "church" as I've experienced it, and so many others have, has been debilitating and crippling--still, so have countless other elements in our lives that have and continue to be redeemed and put to higher use. One of the ways that Church is Art, is that art means something different to each viewer--and what it means actually says more about the viewer than the art or the artist. In the same way, I've found that many of the the things I placed on church were actually more or less related to me...to my daddy issues, or even my issues of self loathing. It's not to say that there aren't real and legitimate problems needing to be addressed, because there are...but instead, is saying that I am also complicit in that problem and therefore must be part of the solution. That's where I go with it.
I see your point about choosing not to regard Jesus' statements in loose artistic form but more as definite statements of value or worth...I, at this moment in time, just don't see it exactly like that. But I do know where you're coming from, and I hope that it is challenging you, changing you, and changing the world through you.
Cheers
Posted by Brittian Bullock | Posted at 01/31/2009 5:04 PMBrittian,
I so appreciated your article. It is so where I am right now. In fact, I had just downloaded your article and printed it out on the day that I was presenting a new women's group opportunity to our church: To creatively discover who God created us to be, to discover and experience creative ways of prayer, and to look at how God communicates through metaphor. I believe we were all created in the image of the Creator God and are all creative. Our culture (schools, church...) has focused so much on reason and logic that we've left the right creative side of our brains to atrophy. It's good to know that others are stepping outside the box and exploring their faith in new ways.
Posted by Amy | Posted at 02/01/2009 4:14 PM@ Dan,
I think you are right on. The church is the body of Christ. It is the visible expression of Jesus to the culture around us. We don't have the freedom to translate the church in any way we (as artists) see fit. That luxury is left up to Scripture.
If I approach Jesus' teaching from the perspective of art, then the interpretation of what Jesus says is left up to me. Dan, I totally agree - the parable is highlighting the worth of the Kingdom. He doesn't leave it open for other interpretations. I'm glad that understanding scripture is not up to me.
Ps. 119.130 "The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple."
Take Care,
Posted by Donnie | Posted at 02/02/2009 9:19 AM@Donnie,
I think there may have been a misunderstanding of what I was essentially saying. First, when I observed that Jesus often used metaphors in his speaking, I wasn't making a comment about content, or denying the reality of what he was speaking about--but merely making a literary observation about the language he chose to utilize. Second, by pointing out he often spoke in metaphors I was not saying that what he was saying was some how less real or less important. There is a rather boring notion of linguistics that anything worth saying is worth saying plainly or simply in the most direct way possible. This really doesn't stand up to any historic reading of human literature since the dawn of written communication. As Father Anthony DeMello used to say, "The shortest distance between the human heart and Truth is a good story". Story, like metaphor, doesn't just come right and out and tell you what to think--but instead allows the hearer to do the thinking and the processing and the concluding on their own. That process is incredibly internally revealing. This is why Jesus' parables were so powerful; they were not just saying something about Jesus and what he believed, but the conclusions that the listeners came to said something about them as well--something that often revealed the motives of their heart. Now, notice--I still didn't say a word about the content of Jesus' message, only how he often went about communicating it. And I think in some ways it goes to the heart of what a great many people feel has been "wrong" with Christianity over the centuries. As Richard Rohr put it at Soularize, "we have taught people what to think but not how to think!" This is a huge disservice--and one I don't feel is reflected in jesus' own enegmatic and inspiring teaching and living. He was less concerned about dogmatic definition of terms and more about getting to the heart of the people he was dealing with; less concerned about giving them pin point positions and polemics than perhaps we would be inclined to do. Again, I reitterate--my point wasn't to say that Jesus' words were meaningless--but rather to say he wasn't spelling them out in the same way--oh I don't know--an accountant might.
As far as your other point, and the heart of what I think might actually be the true concern, do we have the freedom to translate the church any way we see fit? I would counter that regardless of freedom, taking the words "should" or "ought" out of the equation, we DO translate church. We are constantly interpreting. That's why you have countless denominations, different type of groups, and a variety of expressions of the church. Which one's the right one? Now, that's not to say there aren't more or less healthy embodiments--because there truly are. And it's also not to say that our personal interpretations shouldn't be challenged by the Text, by the community of believers (both historic and immediate) and by the Holy Spirit--because they should be. Hopefully we are BEING transformed--not merely transforming religion as WE see fit.
But, none of this was actually the premise I was writing about. I was essentially using different language to state an age old truth--we must allow the Holy Spirit to move in us--to create in us--to stir and fan our hearts. We must follow God, and that--very often--is a blazing of new trails, going into new territory. In that new place, we must use every faculty granted to us; and certainly among those there is a place for Authenticity, Creativity, and Experiment. Surely, as I am engaging in God's New Creation (literally New Artwork), the Body of Christ, something about me will be revealed and I will be changed in His likeness.
In the end, this may not be an important metaphor to you--however it is to me--and is to many people who have been marginalized by other metaphors which have often been overemphasized to the point of exclusion.
Cheers,
Posted by Brittian | Posted at 02/02/2009 4:19 PMBrittian, thanks for this article. In my life, metaphors have been very important tools for discovering truth. As God reveals more and more of what reality is supposed to be like to me, I'm learning to see and explain those truths in metaphors that make sense to me.
Here's an example: Repentance. It's not about "feeling sorry." That's contrition. Being contrite is a very biblical and important thing, realizing that sin hurts people and God and feeling regret over having chosen it. But confusing repentance with contrition makes it impotent.
Repentance is like this: When you realize you're caked with sin inside and out, and you want God to fix you, it's like when you're walking in the woods and you find an old glass bottle half buried in the dirt. You see it's filled with mud and rocks and caked with mud inside and out. You take it home, turn on the garden hose, and start hosing it off. You can hose off the outside until it's clean enough to lick, but then you need to hose off the inside before it will be fit to drink out of. You've got to turn the mouth of the bottle toward the water stream. Doing that, you hose it out and let the water run until it's clear. But then you notice it's still got big rocks rolling around inside, limiting the INTERNAL CAPACITY. Before you can fill the bottle up with clean water and use it yourself or give it to others, you've got to get the rocks out, so the bottle can be truly full.
Repentance is deciding to keep your bottle pointed toward the healing stream of the Water of Life long enough for Him to rinse you inside and out, and then get the rocks out so you will be completely full and ready for others to drink the Water in you. But as they drink, you'll need to go back to the Source to be refilled over and over. Repentance is just keeping yourself pointed toward the Source of Living Water: it's about orientation, not about an internal mood.
Only as you get clean do you realize how dirty you were, but at that point, it's just more fun to celebrate getting clean than being sorry that you were once dirty.
Posted by John | Posted at 02/03/2009 11:34 AM