(This is a jumbled processing blog post)
Learning to be a Christian in America is hard. It is like...another world. I think the hardest part about it, is that it is a cultural thing in America. It would be just as hard to be a Muslim in a Muslim country. How can you be a good true Muslim when all your laws pretty much make you be a Muslim? Or all the Social expectations and norms force you to be one as well?
How am I suppose to live in the States as a Christian? I feel though as if there is a complication to it as well, since there is a generation, my generation, that has grown up in the church and is now trying to redefine what it means and looks like. There is this subtle rebellion against things of old and striving for this "back to community and basics" idea. Much like trying to live like they lived in the 1st century. What i have seen in this is a slight revolt for things of Definitions and structures.
What I have seen is everyone wanting things to be "Organic". Though I am not sure what they mean by that. I am assuming it is a sense of things happening on a more day to day basses and there is not this 'going out of the way' to have something happen. I believe that is what it means. Though I don't know if I agree with it, but maybe I do to an extent. The reason is that i believe that we have to 'go out of the way' to make things organic. How else to you build relationships and know people, unless you make time in your schedule, that meeting and that conversation just won't happen. It takes me going out of the way to an extend, but does that not make it organic? I don't know. Even conversations aren't really organic, you have to go out of the way a bit to ask those tough questions and to get to the heart of people, to see what is going on. That is how I see it at least. Than agian I could be wrong and I turely just want understanding.
To be a bit honest I find it sad that there is this sense that we have to redefine things and make things our own in this generation. I think there is a lot of good from it, in terms of community and in terms of wanting to follow Jesus with a true authentic faith. Yet I don't like sometimes how it is done and how some things there is a heavy stance against it, like structure and wanting to do things. The actions of doing something constantly is not legalism, but putting those things above Christ and replacing him with them is legalism. More of a heart problem than an action problem. In reality I believe we are all legalists to an extent, just because we might not have rules in a traditional sense doesn't mean that we don't have any. Like if everything is to be organic, but I think things should be more structured, then the legalism is saying that, that is wrong and it can only be organic. In either case the point isn't the things within themselves, but having those things point us toward Christ. Having one way won't work, or does it? There is only one way to God....Jesus Christ, so maybe there is only one way to do things, but then again God doesn't seem to do the same thing in the same way all the time. Not everyone is called to him in the same way. (Sorry for the tangent)
I just don't believe that things being more organic or more structured is key, but in the situation you find yourself the question should be, which one will lead me the closest to Christ?
I also need to think more about this lack of definition thing as well as there is a lot of assumption within the definition. Sometimes i don't know what you mean, but you assume that I do.
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