By Dan of DUZIE
We live in a very interesting time of history. It is a time when going forward means going back. Returning to a time before “companies” ruled “culture”. Back when “community” was stronger than “country”.
We are returning to a time when “Christian” was a nickname only for people who followed a rabbi/martyr named Jesus the Christ. A time when preaching, was good news to the poor and the prisoners, the sick, the blind, and the oppressed got more than an invitation to a building and a message.
A time of RENDEZVOUS!
A RENDEZVOUS is a meeting point, a point ahead where two or more roads intersect. It is a safe place, a known place, a place of common ground. This generation has a RENDEZVOUS kind of faith!
In my life I was taught or at least I caught the art of inspection. To see where other people are different . . . where they are wrong . . . where I am right. I somehow believed that faith was based upon a list of beliefs and information. My church was a club where you fit in or you were unfit. I was not taught to be a friend of sinners. They were to be converted, not connected with.
But faith must be more than information and inspection. It must be a RENDEZVOUS, a place where I meet God, a place where I meet humanity, a place of extended community, friendship and a place for growth
Jesus came to such a place at such a time. He did not come to inspect but to RENDEZVOUS with mankind. If any one knew how to inspect He did, but He met people and invited them to join His journey. Or He perhaps, joined their journey and they did life together.
I find this Jesus generation, making and keeping friends, not converts. Which is hard to take if you live in the land of inspection and information.
The Christian history is a story of people encountering other people. Some came in love and they found a place to RENDEZVOUS, their results are glorious, others came with an agenda of inspection and the results are grievous to say the least.
This generation connects on the similarities of life, not the differences. They take their Jesus experiences, their story of God, mankind and me, with them everywhere. But their story contains many chapters. It is not a simple one size fits all solution. They wait until they know the size, then they aim for a RENDEZVOUS. Where their lives find connection.
If you are part of this new generation, make sure your story is full of God’s story, let your questions be as rich as your answers and understand Jesus invented RENDEZVOUS. Study Him!
If you are part of the inspection and information generation than please take time to listen to what is being lived. A RENDEZVOUS is not a point for a meeting, it is a moment where lives and stories connect, and truth is discovered like a missing piece of the puzzle over time and space.
Tags: community, generation
May 17th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Good stuff just a question is “this new generation a age related group or is it a people that long for relationship? I would argue that it is the latter and that the rendezvous is the restless longing for a God centered father/parent to child family reality.