what is your problem

12Dec07

Tonight, sleepless and furtive, unwilling to bow my head in prayers just yet, but knowing I need to go for there are things I could never effect or work out on my own — the good Lord knows — I sit here, grimly wondering for how long does a person’s faith erodes before someone notices?

For it could save a friend’s life.

I believe in the power of the gospel to save everyone.

But I’m also deeply troubled that we are, for the most part, scantly informed, and often ill-equipped to handle the complexities of the emerging world. The macerated bits of our one-track minds and singular method to preach and to share the gospel — look, there is a new reality forming in my mind. I can’t deny it anymore. But I don’t know what it is just yet.

The gospel still is plain and effective, the weapons of our warfare remain spiritual — that much I know and still believe, if confessing a belief could fairly represent my uttermost need for those things.

There is SOMETHING NEW that my brain hasn’t quite caught on to yet. I’m merely telling what was, and I hope very much still is, but I cannot say what it will be. And clearly, that is annoying me to some extent.

Dear readers, I wish to tell you more, but my cerebral part is affecting slowness, hopefully for a damn good reason.

This is not a crisis of faith… but a problem with the terms of engagement.

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