Getting Dirty

I heard a line in a movie or read it in a book that goes something like;” What are you going to do, talk him to death”?  It is not important where it came from, rather what is important, I believe, is that this is what is happening in so many aspects of modern culture including the church.  Case in point: some of you would like to discuss/debate my use of the term “modern” culture.  I mean, is it really modern or is it post-modern, post-Christian, or maybe simply emergent?  Does it actually matter what we call it?  All of the blog-space, debates and literature given to defining these and other terms correctly amount to nothing more than pious fence sitting.  And that fence is sagging from the weight!

                                                                                                

Culture doesn’t need to be defined and labeled; it needs to be embraced, celebrated and lived.  The church doesn’t need to be defined, it needs to seek God’s will through prayer and His word, and then be His body on earth.  The church is a living organism which, if we are not careful, could be talked to death right before our eyes.

 

In and before Christ’s time, Jewish students studying after a certain rabbi would often follow him so closely that they would actually walk in his footsteps.  The results would be that they were covered in the dust of their rabbi.

 

So let’s quit talking and start getting dirty in the “dust of the Rabbi”.

 

Feeling the need to get dirty, RT