Welcome to the dysfunctional family of Yahweh

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. My life has changed a bit since my last entry on wordpress. I vaguely remember talking about coloring and being a kid again. It's a nice thought, but far from reality.

In fact, my life has changed so much that I now live in a new town, with new people. I'm part of a little experiment called Community Discipleship Home. We talk about Jesus, the Kingdom of God, and sharing life with others. There are 8 of us, all with internships, and all with some sort of hang up about what it truly means to be One Body, living as discipled and redeemed individuals. I don't think any of us signed up for CDH (Community Discipleship Home) listing out our most visible flaws, I think it is just gradually happening. We are seeing who we are as individuals, and I think we are all noticing things about ourselves that hinder our effectiveness of being the "light" of the world. Hence why I choose the title I did. We are a dysfunctional family of God. We all have these fixed ideas about what it means to live for another world...I guess you could call it Kingdom living. I think we all desire something greater, something real, an authentic way of life. So we are here, living in COMMUNITY, discipling, being discipled, and redefining the doors of normalcy and conformity.

I've learned a lot about myself within just a month or so. I'm cynical sometimes, and a bit jaded by the religious monotony of our world. We do things only out of ritual practices, and forget about people. And, I admit, I'm selfish at times. It's hard to maintain the idea that serving God also means serving people. And for the record, living with 7 others + 2 "adults" + 2 kids is not always easy. So I digress, life has been different.

Here's a side note.
Rich Mullins used to say that Christianity is for sick people. Shane Claiborne would agree. Shane said whenever people tell me that Christians are hypocrites, I said: Well duh, every time we come together we are confessing that we are hypocrites, weaklings in need of God and each other." We know that we cannot do life alone, and the good news is that we don't have to. We are created for community."

And that's what we are doing, all 8 of us. We are changing the way we define what it means to live in community with others, and what it means to help the sick, needy, and poor in spirit.

Last thing. There is a narrow way that leads to life. I'm finding it.

Emily