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before i get to my axiom, i’d like to acknowledge the fact that the past couple of days of dialogue about worship has been one of my highest rated blog posts in the three-and-a-half years of doing this…over 115 different “views” and 18 comments. pretty cool!
normally, i dedicate thursdays to giving some of my personal life axioms…truth that, from my perspective, is self-evident. sometimes practical. sometimes philosophical. sometimes whimsical. but truth, no less. after a week off, i think i’ll pass on another one.
“know the difference between “going” to church and “being” the church.”
this one is not new. anybody who has known me for a while…like the past thirty years…knows what i believe about this. there is probably no one axiom that expresses the answer to the messes that so many people find themselves in on their spiritual journeys.
this might possibly be the issue that creates the turning point between wandering and trust…fate and hope…intellect and faith…law and grace.
no matter how hard we try, we who are raised in church culture (or raise our kids there) have a dividing line we must cross…a passing over, if you will, into the world that god intends for us to live in, and not the one our sunday school teachers would have us believe in (bless their hearts).
those who never make that move are destined to be stuck in a spiritual black hole…a belief in god as the creator, but overwhelmed by all that is wrong with the church and unexplained by theology.
our world is full of people who believe that this “going to church stuff” is the measuring stick of christianity…that somehow we impress god and others by our church attendance and ultimately win their approval and our salvation. church is not a destination. church is identity. it is what I am a part of every moment of every day. to miss this is to miss the whole point of being a follower of christ. to miss this is to miss the joy and purpose of belonging to the body of christ.
to miss this is tragedy that some never recover from.
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