8 Sentences about Growth and Community

From The Seeking Heart (by Francois Fenelon): “If you are not careful, you will acquire so much knowledge that you will need another lifetime to put it into practice.”

Ephesians 4 gives us a clue to a personality trait that tends to ‘activate’ our potential perhaps more than any other. I want to suggest that it’s openness: actually a radical openness to 5 kinds of input (an openness to being led, an openness to being challenged, an openness to being taught, and openness to being touched and an openness to be involved in grace for someone else).

I think those two thoughts (paragraphs one and two above) come together at a very important intersection. Being radically open without taking any action means we have all kinds of great information which does nothing. Taking radical action without being open means you might be growing, but only at the ‘snail’s pace’ made possible with one person’s worth of insight (your own).

If you had to pick one problem for your own, which would it be? Why not have a discussion about it this week with someone you trust?

This Sunday, we’ll be taking a fresh look at community and new ways that we can ‘do life’ together.

Have a great day,

Chris