Holistic Dance Party

I started reading Paul's Idea of Community over again today. It's good to be reading again and to be feasting on the nutritious words of the Bible.

"As we have seen , for Paul the gospel bound believers to one another as well as to God. Acceptance by Christ necessitated acceptance of those whom he had already welcomed (Rom 15:7); reconciliation with God entailed reconciliation with others who exhibited the character of gospel preaching (Phil 4:2-3); union in the Spirit involved union with one another, for the Spirit was primarily a shared, not individual, experience. (2 Cor 13:14; Phil 2:1; Eph 4:3) The gospel is not a purely personal matter. It has a social dimension. It is a communal affair.

To embrace the gospel, then, is to enter into community. A person cannot have one without the other. But what sort of community? Where does it exist? How is it expressed?"

Good question.

Thinking about Andrew's post today:

"It might be better to have a party that is redemptive than having a boring service that has moments of drama/fun."

How that makes me think of the story of the prodigal son and how when the older brother came in from the field he heard "music and dancing".

Thinking about Howie's teaching Sunday and His question, "Why do you want to live?"(not the reasons you don't want to die, but the reasons you want to LIVE) -- And like the wolf wanting to live to "dance"!

Thinking how I'm not such a good dancer.

And also thinking quite a bit about Brad's question, "what does it mean and what might it look like to be a holistic, 24-7 disciple?"