Putting it simply this week...I'm thinking of two poets I saw recently, both slam poets, one not from a Christian tradition and one from a Christian tradition.
The difference in language and vocabulary, descriptors and verbs just made me think......
Can we be real enough once we have crossed over to church culture? Do we so lose our edge that we forget what despair and fear and hopelessness sound like? They have a different emphasis you know.
And if we can't, then how shall those who know the true slice of the negative, the evil that has not been assuaged by spiritual mentholatum, engage with us enough to hear the next verse of hope or redemption?
If redemption, and knowing redemption change the very nature of our connection to the history that gripped us frozen can we speak of 'before' enough to invite people to 'after'?
Moreso from the pulpit. Do you make a point of remembering when you were lost? Can you at least call to mind and heart what it felt like so that 'free' is a contrast instead of an alternative?
Hmmmmm..... I have to think on this more. I think it is key in telling our stories so that they are as real as those recorded about Jesus' encounter with 'lost' are the model rather than the inspiration.
Love,
Deborah
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