"Lack of vulnerability in personal relationships leads to superficiality."
Click the quote above (link) to read Tara's original blog and my response. I'm elaborating on my thoughts here.
That is HUGE! This is what happens Sunday mornings- we talk about all kinds of things, but don't make ourselves vulnerable, so we end up not knowing the people we worship with. We're going to spend eternity with them- maybe it's about time we get to know them! And let them get to know us.
Instead of asking about the weather, we should be asking how they're doing spiritually. Better yet, we should be sharing how we're doing spiritually.Why are we so afraid to "wear bikini's" to church? Of all places, that's the one place we should feel comfortable to open up and be real.
I'm tired of all the superficiality in the church. That's why we lose so many people- especially in this day when people are searching for real relationship. Where else do we expect them to find it?
I challenge you to start opening up. Then make the commitment to stay around when others start opening up to you. Don't like what you find? It doesn't matter- love them anyway and begin the process of bonding to the body of Christ.
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Yes, Doug, there IS an authentic church...when this value churns inside of us to a holy discontent of epic proportion, then we do something about it. We don't create what we don't value. And, if people enjoy wearing thermal vests in the First Church of Frigidaire, well that's their business!
But as for those, who yearn: we learn, and we burn....with passion, adding knowledge...to virtuoso-level virtue. By grace we drawn into something more, as the Father draws us. We create a greenhouse for grace, and the Father does the drawing. Grace be unto you....
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