In my spiritual journey, there are lessons that I return to time and time again. They are milestones in my walk that mark a major paradigm shift and because of the combative world I live in, as well as my own personal resistance to change, I like to return to them and remember.
One such lesson that changed my vision of "Christian community" is an article called What the Church Has To Learn From Alcoholics Anonymous. When I first read it there was a stirring for authentic belonging and life transformation that still challenges me today. Here's a taste...
"Now perhaps the time has come for the church to be re-awakened and re-vitalized by those insights and practices found in AA.
I think some of you may be a little horrified at this suggestion. I fear you will be saying to yourself, 'What have we, who have always been decent people, to learn from a lot of reconstructed drunks?' And perhaps you may thereby reveal to yourself how very far you are from the Spirit of Christ and the Gospel, and how very much in need of precisely the kind of check-up that may come to us from AA."
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1 comments:
Nicely put. I remember you introducing this to us at common ground years ago - like all that we studied together, it had a huge impact.
We do so much to be so different from "the World" (scary word) -- it's nice to sense what we might be able to glean there for ourselves from time to time. :)
later-
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