How do you establish, maintain, and nurture a Dispersed Community?
This is one of the primary questions that pushes my work with the MWF.
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“He is around thirty pounds, with shaggy gray hair, a spotted tongue, his name is Barnaby, and I have had him for about fifteen years,” I say into the phone. “Yep, we definitely have your dog,” says the other person on the other end of the line.
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The Missional Wisdom Foundation has a Rule of Life. Did you know that?
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I rouse to the melody of my alarm, and before my eyes can blink open and fully take in the light, my stomach tightens into knots. My dog Scout stirs, licks my hand, but she doesn’t yet rise.
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During the last twenty years there has been a substantial decline in overall church health as can be seen in average weekly attendance, charitable giving, and churches positioned for closing.
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I have worked as a type of missionary with an unusual people group in my own community for years. Most of my educational effort on both the graduate and post graduate level has been largely focused on how we engage this affinity group with the Christian message in a way that is restorative in nature while being both easy to appropriate and reproducible.
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I love the MWF words “alternative Christian community.” I was not brought up going to church, but as a teenager I longed for community.
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“Absolute distinction.”
Incommensurable worlds. Dialectically opposed. Right and wrong, black and white, in and out.
A parable, this parable, invites us into the space between incommensurable worlds.
It had just rained. I remember because my nose hadn’t yet adjusted to the new pungent odors around the table. We were all anxious for food, so the chatter was at a minimum.
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Have you ever stood in the middle of a party, telling a fascinating anecdote, only to realize no one is listening? We shrink into ourselves shocked by the sight of our revealed selves. It is a brief moment of total disconnection and exposure.
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In earlier centuries, thousands of Christians took it upon themselves to become friars “on the move” so as to be found around neighborhoods where Christian community was weak or non-existent.
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Imagine.
ɪˈmædʒ.ɪn
Imagine is a word that fills the mouth.
For the next four weeks, the “Wisdom for the Way” will explore the parable, “The Jeweller,” from Soren Kierkegaard’s Stages of Life’s Way.
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The season of Epiphany is a time to celebrate the incarnational presence of God in the world. Jesus is here! Death is defeated! His life of miracle and mission imparts hope and purpose into humanity. It is a new season that invites us to reflect on the miracles at work.
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It is not difficult to imagine that the young Virgin Mary likely had an ordinary plan for her life before the Annunciation. When Gabriel arrived and Mary consented to be the mother of the Christ child, it is unlikely that she fully grasped the scope of that role.
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Starting with a spark in the sticks, the Holy Spirit has a crackling flame now in a small rural community in Virginia. We have a fledging cradle for the birth of a new thing on fourteen acres along a major highway including a restaurant and motel.
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Something has happened. Something is different.
Is it my shoulders? Well...they don’t feel so heavy, hmm.
My jaw...it has been so tight lately... why, it has released, and I can move it all about!
And my chest...oh how I can breathe in so fully!
Tamira began tutoring in Dallas with students whose families could afford her, and through her supportive and creative teaching efforts, her students emerged from the formation of her tutoring to enter into successful college careers.
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Who am I becoming? As Scrooge encounters a future without him, rippling with the effects of a life long-lived under his miserly virtues and values, he comes face to face with the impact of his actions, the harvest of seeds long-sown.
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