The search continues

So I still haven't heard from any of the people that I submitted resumes to. I know that it hasn't been that long but soon we are going to need a pay check. Now I know that there a lot of ways to make money but still a steady job would be nice.

With my newly found free time I am reading a lot. I am currently reading Generous Orthodoxy and there is some big stuff in there. The main idea of the book is to step back and look at different ways to see who God is. It goes thru many different Christian sects and points out the good parts of what they see and challenges the reader to not adopt them but to experience them.

A concept that the new church ( whatever you want to call it, ie emerging, organic, etc) will have to spend time examining is discipleship. Let me share with you McLaren's view:

"...it will empower 'lay' people, realizing that baptism itself is a kind of ordination to ministry and that the purpose of discipleship is to train and deploy everyday apostles. And like the earliest Methodists, it will see discipleship as a process of reaching ahead with one hand to find the hand of a mentor a few steps up the hill, while reaching back with the other to help the next brother or sister in line who is also on the upward path of discipleship.

May God save us from forgetting to reach back."

The only way that this can ever be achieved is in a church where daily community is occurring. I don't mean that we have a church service every night, but that the church body live in a way that allows them to be in contact and fellowship with each other. I know that with all that I am recently decided I wish I could of talked with a man that has made a similar decision. Not that the advice from my friend was bad or lacking in any way, there is just wisdom in experience.