Monday, March 19, 2007
Driving Round and Round the Culdesac
God has been working with me in some interesting ways recently. He is teaching me not through church (unfortunately) or Christian audio, but through secular podcasts. He has been showing me about the needs of the world outside of my small, narrow circle. I am becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the amount of time I am spending in this circle. Inside the circle, not much is happening that is all that interesting. In fact, just the opposite. Sometimes it is like those inside the circle are either congratulating each other or feeding off of each other (as in tearing chunks of flesh off each other). This circle is increasingly looking so unlike what is going on outside the circle. I have been listening to story after story of lost people desparate for love. It may be time for me to get outside the circle. That will mean not doing so much inside the circle. Hmmm.
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Why do you ask such probing questions!?!? Answering them would require some deep reflection. Maybe I will do that tonight.
I don't know what this means yet. I doubt it means a complete abandonment of my circle. I just know that He is showing me that a lot is happening outside of my closed circle of influence and the needs are huge. For now, I plan on listening and observing.
alright...just making sure your not diving into this whole thing without some kind of thought...and you are right...there is a huge need outside of our comfortable little circles that is being neglected a lot of the time...but does that mean that we should just straight up leave them and go off and do our own thing? it seems to me that Jesus had his little circle of friends that he hung out with constantly and looked towards for encouragment and stuff...his disciples...sure friends and other people that may be part of these "circles" might not be disciples...but they can be basically the same thing in the area of community..
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