After using my dictionary for the second time in my life to actually figure out what you were saying…or more like I think I know what you are saying. :) I feel that the problem with the whole categories and boxes the world, particularily the western world, has put God into is that He no longer looks like God. Th simlicity of the gospel has been lost to a soulish, intellectual assent. We no longer discern by the Spirit but by our own world view and knowledge. The is no inner witness but rather a mental witness.

The result is we are thrown by every wind of teaching.

The truth is is that we are saved into the Kingdom and we are called to bring the ‘reality’ of the kingdom to the world…
1 Cor 4:20
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.

When we get out of our books (and I do enjoy reading and study of the Word) and our churches (class rooms) and walk in the simplicity of Christ, the rest will fall into place.

What am I saying? Well we are so busy trying to analyse and work out ‘the new church’ when we haven’t even begun to walk in the basics. We need to go more to the morgue and say to bodies ‘get up and walk,’ than sit in lounges and pray lengthy meaningless prayer.

Rollan & Heidi Baker in Mozambique have planter thousands of churches…how? The walk into a village, they know nothing of Christ or the Word. She calls for all the deaf…when they come she makes a statement…’today all your deaf will be healed.’ She then prays and they are all healed. Instant church.

That is the difference between 2 churches in five years and 2500+ churches in two years.

Excuse any shortness or abruptness in my post. I am not a literary genius or eloquent on the keys by any stretch…:)

Got any ideas how we do that? :-)

In that humility we can see our fellow humans as “others” made in the image of God. We can seek to move from forcing our truth claims upon others and, instead, be willing to look and listen for what God is already doing in their lives.

But we can also buy into the suspicion of metanarratives and end up believing that our story of faith is just another story that has seen its day. While we may need an overhaul of the frame within which we paint the picture of faith, we may do damage to our call as God’s people if we do not live and proclaim a better story, a life-giving economy, an alternative reality that we would identify as the kingdom of God.

It might be true that we live in a broad western culture that has become numbed to our revivalist models of evangelism. But it is not true that there is no large story within to live. We might need to deconstruct our certainties, but perhaps we can learn to reconstruct them in the context of demonstrating the life we claim has come to us in Jesus.