An encouraging post. Thank you. I love that quote from Brian McLaren about vision quests. I had never thought about vision quests as opposing groupthink, but it's so. I think part of my own insecurity, which the Spirit has been addressing, comes from the lack of such affirming experiences within my tribe. I gravitated to a very legalistic church during my young adult years.
I've been reading Steven Charleston's material on Native American epistemology, and Brian's insight comports with Charleston's: "There are no disembodied messages from on high, only intimate messages from within." Those receiving such messages practice accountability and interpretation within a receptive and wise community, as I understand Charleston. Truth becomes dynamic like the rock that Brian describes as an event as not as a thing.
Great post. I especially liked "God is calling you to something much more unpredictable: share the good news of Jesus with the christians in your local church"
Thank you for this. I am endeavoring to overcome such doubt and cynicism in myself right now. The truth of this shook those, in me. It needed to be shaken.
Thanks Bryce. I loved so many things about the conversation, but one of my favorite parts was when I asked him about theology and he started talking about rocks! Ha, I love it.
and I don’t know why I never thought of the wilderness story being something like an indigenous vision quest, but yes, of course, that’s what it was.
An encouraging post. Thank you. I love that quote from Brian McLaren about vision quests. I had never thought about vision quests as opposing groupthink, but it's so. I think part of my own insecurity, which the Spirit has been addressing, comes from the lack of such affirming experiences within my tribe. I gravitated to a very legalistic church during my young adult years.
I've been reading Steven Charleston's material on Native American epistemology, and Brian's insight comports with Charleston's: "There are no disembodied messages from on high, only intimate messages from within." Those receiving such messages practice accountability and interpretation within a receptive and wise community, as I understand Charleston. Truth becomes dynamic like the rock that Brian describes as an event as not as a thing.
Great post. I especially liked "God is calling you to something much more unpredictable: share the good news of Jesus with the christians in your local church"
haha, yes, scary!
Thank you for this. I am endeavoring to overcome such doubt and cynicism in myself right now. The truth of this shook those, in me. It needed to be shaken.
thank you for your comment and your vulnerability.
"shaken" with you.
Thanks Bryce. I loved so many things about the conversation, but one of my favorite parts was when I asked him about theology and he started talking about rocks! Ha, I love it.
and I don’t know why I never thought of the wilderness story being something like an indigenous vision quest, but yes, of course, that’s what it was.
and yes, to embodied messages from within. 🙏🏻
Quakers were called “Friends of the Truth”