The Pizza Resistance (My Old Blog)

Sorry the blogging has been so sporadic. Three factors have been working against me. 1) My life is too busy to support daily blogging. 2) I get depressed when I see only a post a week, so I don’t blog at all for months. Which is even more depressing. All this leads to 3) I suck.

I really need to get into a team blog where there is less pressure to produce, and there is built in encouragement from having others post. Anyway, that’s not what I wanted to write about.

For the new year, I declared this the year of “fish or cut bait” for the house church idea. I was either time to stop bitching and do something else, or stop bitching and be part of the solution here. Because being the disgruntled prophet was taking a lot out of me. I admire Jeremiah’s fortitude, but I don’t think that is my calling.

So we are over halfway through the year. And here is the mid-year checkup.

1) I am not really any closer to starting a house church. I’ve certainly read a lot more about it. I still am infatuated with the idea. I still think it is a much better way of being church. But it does not seem that many in my community share the vision. It seems to me that the little bedroom community prefers to stay that way. Which is perfectly within their rights. It’s just a little sad for me.

2) I have stopped bitching. Not only that, I have reached a place of contentment. I have a sense of freedom. I no longer feel the need to tilt at windmills. I have found I can be constructive, and even a critic, without being harsh. Without feeling that someone else’s idea of community necessarily repudiates my own. That there are multiple kinds of community for all God’s children. “Red & yellow, black & white, they are precious in His sight.” “Different strokes for different folks.” It’s an idea I always espoused, really; it’s just that I finally believe it.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that I’ve given up on the house church idea. If the opportunity presents itself, I’m there. But if not...well, I’m okay with that too. :)

# posted by John @ 8:53 AM