Coffee Together

Okay, I'm moving past the "defend the faith" portion of the program. In surfing and finding so many sites against what I see God doing to bring the remnant/emergent church back to Himself in real relationship that goes beyond head knowledge and judgmentalism, I've found myself doing the same thing back: defending "my side" instead of being open to learning from the critique and moving forward in something that's even more refined and spot on.

I'm also finding that there are a number of people across the blogosphere who are going through similar-but-different experiences. Basically, they're finding something new and different and meaningful in Christ - they are seeing reality through new lenses, something that makes better sense than what they'd latched onto previously. And in that newness, they find themselves relatively alone, waving in the wind without anyone with whom to talk about these things. The response most people get when these things are brought up in "polite conversation" is very much like showing up to give a speech and then realizing you're without pants - you're glad you remembered underwear to cover the important stuff, but this isn't what you had in mind.

I invite you all over for coffee. We'll loan you pants.