One of the key leaders in our church just returned from the Fall Meetings of East District. He was “pumped” and enthused. He felt there was hope for the United Church of Canada after-all. He was encouraged by the worship and for the desire expressed by many, for change. But I just don’t know. I’ve been there as well and I’ve heard the words, but it never seems to go anywhere. Maybe I’m too much of a skeptic. My friend believes God can change the church and that we should never underestimate what prayer can do. I’m with him there. I believe it is only through prayer and a divine work of God that this church can be revived. But I just don’t know. Does God want to revive this church? Has the United Church of Canada drifted beyond rescue? What am I doing here? Again, I just don’t know. Maybe this thing called “Cruxifusion” is what we need to help us discern how we move forward in this church. Maybe it will be a place to find support and encouragement. Maybe it will be that voice of change that Vic heard at the East District Meetings. I pray it will, but I just don’t know.
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Most of a millennium ago, when some Christians felt very strongly about something being “missing” from the life of the Church, they began conversing, forming a sense of distinct mission within the Church, and asked for the wider Church’s blessing on their distinctive “charism.”
This Cruxifusion conversation, it seems to me, represents that initial exploration of what it is that seems for us to be missing in our little branch of the Church. We may discover and coalesce around one or more distinctive gifts we can offer.
What gives me hope is that this conversation seems more generous, and less polarized, than in the past.
…but I’m not sure that ‘our knowing or not knowing’ is the issue. We don’t have to know. It’s OK just to be faithful – to be encouraging one another in our faith and to be bearing broad witness to that Hebrews 11:1f doesn’t have too much to say about knowledge but lots to say about faith-based assurance and certainty. We don’t know how it will all turn out within our denomination! We don’t know what fruit our witness may or may not bear. Thank God that that’s not our job. Instead, we can choose to be doing our level best as His evangelical Presence simply because we feel called to be faithful, and as we do so, to ensure that we remain as deeply rooted within the things of Christ as we know!