40 years ago, Moving Out into Life

If you don’t know what you’re doing, join the squad. That’s what everyone who has ever gone His Way has had to work out, too. If you move out into Life, you’ll have no engraved invitation or clear road map. A true son or daughter of Abraham “with the faith of Abraham” will find out there won’t be streetlights lighting your way ahead for miles. The path and day-by-day results won’t be sanitized, and that’s okay. Don’t let a System rob you of the potential growth and failures you will have in a dangerous daily Jesus Life with others. Unleash it fearlessly, but patiently and humbly with careful wisdom. You will look back with a lot of “regrets” about coulda woulda shoulda as you embrace His Actual Life, and slowly grow in His Garden, in His Orchard. Of course, those I know who have shared Jesus’ Life have experienced just about everything over the last 40 years of Living IN Him in daily walking together. We’ve experienced about everything in the middle of careers, families, university, sports, barbecues, parks, hobbies and the whole bit of life. It’s risky, but those of us who have Experienced this for real for decades have loved it, even though helping others who want to grow, nudging out those who have no intention of growing, and letting others into our space so we can grow… all of that is a bit more radical life than words and attendance. Lots of regrets, and no regret. But the biggest regret of all would have been to let “peace and safety” and System religious laziness, fear, or empty critics rob us of the Opportunity to walk with the Risen Jesus, rather than the dusty library of mere words. “The true kingdom of God consists not of mere words—but of Power.”