Sublime

or “present levels”)

Return to what matters.

REAWAKENING

As Teilhard de Chardin said, “We need to have more specialists in spirit who will lead people into self-discovery.” Offering workshops is a powerful way to do this.

I am not sure I do accept God, or how God has been traditionally defined or understood.

misreading the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

Even better, reflecting my conviction (some would say bias!) that the congregational model is the most scriptural of the three,170 one could seek to reestablish a small group of male elders in each local church who all have equal authority and roughly equal responsibility for the authoritative teaching of the church.171

They investigate the past and relate the struggles of the apostles and the Fathers to our present struggles. Thus they become defenders of the faith, showing its reasonableness, its “fittingness” for the oppressed community now.

This included responding specifically to Jesus’s commands (giving us baptism and the Lord’s Supper, for example), but it also included careful selection, reappropriation, and reorientation of formative cultural practices into the repertoire of kingdom-indexed liturgy.