Anticipatory Faith/Theology
Earlier I posted that I am blogging during worship, well here are those thoughts. If you get hung up on the idea of me doing this during a communal gathering, my apologies. It is not my desire to be different or unique, its just how I felt like I should respond during that time.
I am by nature an opinionated person. I also happen to be an amateur historian. I love history, reading and understanding–postulating why people have done what they did. As such I am extremely passionate about learning from the past. Examining the past, not leaving any rock unturned to try and understand the past in order that we might learn from it and not repeat the sins of our forefathers.
This lifestyle of looking through the past and trying to learn from it and can lead to reactionary lifestyle. One that approaches each situation in life as though it is something from the past.
When I approach events or gatherings at my community of faith i often it approach them with a knowledge of the past, as such I often want to change within the community and change within evangelical theological.
I am tired of my faith/theology being reactionary. I so often react to what is happening, I am seemingly unable to look to the future, allowing events and situations to happen seeing them merely a step in the journey of community. Instead I often see them as something that should be done differently in light of the past.
When can my faith/theology become anticipatory?
Even my worship is often reactionary and not anticipatory. Why do I get so hung up on the past and present and be unable to cast a vision and passion for the future or even live in expectancy of the future. Am I poor “reader of the signs?1” Is my faith not enough to listen to you father in regards to the future?
If I step back and think and dream I can be anticipatory, but in the moment, I get hung up on our past that we have yet to learn from.
I desire an anticipatory faith/theology.
1) From Len Sweet.
I am by nature an opinionated person. I also happen to be an amateur historian. I love history, reading and understanding–postulating why people have done what they did. As such I am extremely passionate about learning from the past. Examining the past, not leaving any rock unturned to try and understand the past in order that we might learn from it and not repeat the sins of our forefathers.
This lifestyle of looking through the past and trying to learn from it and can lead to reactionary lifestyle. One that approaches each situation in life as though it is something from the past.
When I approach events or gatherings at my community of faith i often it approach them with a knowledge of the past, as such I often want to change within the community and change within evangelical theological.
I am tired of my faith/theology being reactionary. I so often react to what is happening, I am seemingly unable to look to the future, allowing events and situations to happen seeing them merely a step in the journey of community. Instead I often see them as something that should be done differently in light of the past.
When can my faith/theology become anticipatory?
Even my worship is often reactionary and not anticipatory. Why do I get so hung up on the past and present and be unable to cast a vision and passion for the future or even live in expectancy of the future. Am I poor “reader of the signs?1” Is my faith not enough to listen to you father in regards to the future?
If I step back and think and dream I can be anticipatory, but in the moment, I get hung up on our past that we have yet to learn from.
I desire an anticipatory faith/theology.
1) From Len Sweet.
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