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I first posted about an un-truth I learned from the Church here.
Now, here’s another un-truth I’ve learned from the church: the world is made up of two kingdoms.
The Un-Truth
I learned from the church that we Christians should gather in the “church” building as often as possible so that we might escape the evils of the world, be discipled to be more unlike the world, and be equipped to go out and win the world for Christ.
I don’t find that world-view with Jesus at all.
Our ancient spiritual ancestors from the pages of Hebrew scripture did display a type of dualism. They saw good and evil. Sometimes they saw both good and evil coming from God (try to make that one fit in our postmodern right practices!). They felt “called apart” as a specially chosen people.
But Jesus fulfilled what they were progressively learning: God is dreaming to reconcile all of creation to God’s self!
From Secular to Sacred
Grappling with this revelation causes us to stop looking at parts of the world as sacred and parts of the world as secular.
All of the world is God’s creation. All of it is sacred. All of it is being reconciled.
This raises significant questions for the Church. Are we engaging with God’s activity in reconciling all of creation? Are we making disciples outside the church walls (into all the “world”)? Do we really believe that God’s grace goes before us and that Christ’s Spirit is already at work everywhere?
What I’ve unlearned about dualism is that Christ-followers should see all of creation as Jesus sees it. This is called a messianic worldview. And we see ourselves in this creation as ambassadors of and co-workers with the Messiah everywhere we go!
So Tell Me Something
What are some more un-truths you are un-learning?