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Melissa:
Disclaimer: This one’s corny and rambling 😉
Patrick:
So, as I was driving home today, I kept having the thought of Christ and the Church running through my head. I was listening to my David Crowder station on Pandora, realizing again how individualistic the vast majority of Christian music is. So, my brain wandered, which is dangerous when I am driving. What if music reflected more of the idea of what the Church is? We would have lyrics like “here comes the bride”, or “body in motion”, or “people of the way”. (Note that you will not be hearing any music that I write on the radio any time too soon.) Dietrich Bonhoeffer suggested that Christ is the Church living in community. That is a rather powerful statement, but what if we really thought about the intimate nature of Christ and the Church in that way? Do we see our relationship with Christ as a community thing? How are we acting as the body? The bride? Those metaphors have meaning and we have lost the meaning somewhere along the way. We need to explore them again.
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Scripture gives us a picture of Christ and the Church. For instance, Acts of the Apostles is all about how the Church mirrored/imitated/acted as/carried on the work of/was/complemented/(pick some other verb) Christ. Our modern day American glasses, however, have distorted the picture.
Would you be willing to join us in taking off those “Son-glasses” so that we can explore Him more and let Him lead the way? (sorry if that was corny… it just kinda happened)
Side-note: Melissa wanted me to change it to “put on son-glasses,” but I refused since we all know that sunglasses block out the sun, and in-turn, Son-glasses must therefore block out the Son, and putting those on wouldn’t be such a great idea. However, I do recognize that there are 3D glasses, which allow you to see 3D, but the parallelism isn’t as strong.
