Three Houses

The last few Thursdays we’ve been going to the salt cave to play with a friend Martina, little Kubik & Terezka.  Martina’s husband Petr is the minister at the Brother’s Church in town.  I’m enjoying her & their kids so much, as well as seeing some of the fresh signs of life amongst this part of the body in Tabor.

At the very same time I cannot ignore the groanings of the Spirit that they might freshly hear what He is saying across the global body in these days concerning the biblical DNA/blueprints for His church & for His precious deconstructive & reconstructive work there.  And I’m asking Him to know what my part is & isn’t. 

We are very clearly living in an even more amazing time than the reformation of the 1500’s in which the church is transitioning from apostacy to apostolicity as the Lord Himself tears down & builds, individually & corporately.  Sarah’s excellent recent post about the crisis in the (American) church hits on the tension of this time of transition.  

I’m seeing the central role of the restoration of the gospel of the kingdom in this process & its’ power to effect that for which He is groaning & travailing.  It is also the answer to the dilemma of how I am to be in relation to these friends.  Christ, the gospel is everything:)  Today though I had to repent of careless frivolity, of not being attentive to the weight of eternal significance in every moment.