{"id":19214,"date":"2020-08-19T09:11:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T13:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19214"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:01:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:01:26","slug":"a-disruption-of-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19214","title":{"rendered":"A Disruption of the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Order, Disorder, Reorder:<br> Part Two<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.cmail19.com\/ei\/d\/AB\/C95\/0C3\/060147\/csfinal\/2020-08-16-CM-header-9900000000079e3c.jpg\" alt=\"Image credit: Number 8, (detail), Jackson Pollock, 1949, Neurberger Museum of Art, New York, New York.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBqiJcBliD4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>A\nDisruption of the Spirit<\/strong><br>\nWednesday, \u202fAugust 19, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My\nfriend and CAC colleague Brian McLaren has spent years imagining \u201ca new kind of\nChristianity\u201d that invites people into a deepening commitment to love of God,\nneighbor, and self. Such a movement for the common good is surely disruptive or\n\u201cdisordering\u201d to our status quo, just as Jesus disrupted the status quo in his\nown day.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus\nwas introducing what, in today\u2019s parlance, might be called a disruptive\ntechnology. Where sustaining technologies stimulate incremental improvements,\nlike, say, going from a rotary phone to a touch-tone or keypad phone, or even\nfrom a landline to a wireless phone, a disruptive technology displaces\nestablished assumptions, as in, say, combining a phone, a camera, a computer, a\nmusic library and player, a GPS device, and a mobile Internet portal. The old\nstatus quo is disrupted, the game changes, and old technologies become\nirrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[In]\nJohn\u2019s Gospel, Jesus continues to use the imagery of disruption (John 3\u20134).\nFirst, he tells a man that in spite of all his learning, in spite of all his\nstatus, he needs to go back and start over, to be <em>born again<\/em>\u2014perhaps the most apt image for disruption ever. Then he\ntells a woman that the location of worship doesn\u2019t matter at all\u2014which in their\nday meant that temples were irrelevant. What matters, Jesus says, is the\nattitude (or spirit) and authenticity (or truth) of the worshipper. Jesus was\ncalling for a radical disruption in his religion, a great spiritual migration,\nand a similar disruption and migration are needed no less today in the religion\nthat names itself after him. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\nlater New Testament writer repeated and expanded upon the disruption and\nmigration Jesus was calling for (1 Peter 2:5). The way of life centered in the\nTemple must be disrupted because God wanted to dwell not in buildings of bricks\nor stones cemented together by mortar, but rather <em>in human beings\u2014living stones<\/em>, he called them\u2014cemented\ntogether by mutual love, honor, and respect. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\ndisruptive revolution, this liberation, this great spiritual migration begins with\neach of us presenting ourselves, with all of our doubts and imperfections, all\nof our failures, fears, and flaws, to the Spirit, our legs as pillars, our\nbodies as temples. . . . You. Me. Everyone. No exceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe\nmoving ever shall stay,\u201d [twelfth-century Hindu mystic and poet] Basava said.\n[1] Those words contradict so much of our inherited religious sensibility.\n\u201cStay the same. Don\u2019t move. Hold on. Survival depends on resistance to change,\u201d\nwe were told again and again. \u201cFoment change. Keep moving. Evolve. Survival\ndepends on mobility,\u201d the Spirit persistently says. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to see the future of Christianity as a great spiritual migration, don\u2019t look at a church building. Go look in the mirror and look at your neighbor. God\u2019s message of love is sent into the world in human envelopes. If you want to see a great spiritual migration begin, then let it start right in your body. Let your life be a foothold of liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-19-at-10.00.48-AM-500x329.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-19-at-10.00.48-AM-500x329.png 500w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-19-at-10.00.48-AM-300x197.png 300w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-19-at-10.00.48-AM-768x505.png 768w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-19-at-10.00.48-AM.png 1948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order, Disorder, Reorder: Part Two A Disruption of the Spirit Wednesday, \u202fAugust 19, 2020 My friend and CAC colleague Brian McLaren has spent years imagining \u201ca new kind of Christianity\u201d that invites people into a deepening commitment to love of God, neighbor, and self. 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