ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS
February 3, 2020
Prayer for the Week:
How do we not see?
How do we not recognize
the historic bias,
the prejudice born from insecurity,
the limits we have placed
upon your limitless potential,
your immeasurable creativity?
Our skewed perception is alive and well,
it is at work in and through your church
-attempting to the restrict-
-aiming to fetter-
your Spirit’s work in the world,
or at least our capacity
to perceive that work.
Wonderful and Breath-taking God,
create within each of us
the capacity to enjoy your skillfulness
-your proficiency-
at ignoring our expectations,
at disregarding our presuppositions
that seek to tell you
how you need to do your thing
in this world.
Too many people have rejected
or denied their own calling,
not because the call was empty of you,
Extravagant Spirit of Love,
but because the so-called orthodoxy
of the faith
laughed at the suggestion.
If some segment of the church
wishes to keep laughing,
let us distance ourselves as we
– all of us –
move forward together into
the amazing and inclusive future
you are creating.
We pray in the name of the one
who had no interest in boundaries
of this insecure world. Amen.
