In my previous post, I was talking about the topic of conversation. But of course, “conversation” is not all there is. There is “life together” that is mission, discipline, accountability, and responding to call, which involves us in the world at the point of our gifts. This journey together is about enabling those gifts, and working together to break our addictions to culture, a culture which tells us that we as individuals have within us all it takes to “succeeed” and be a worthwhile person in this world. As we sever our bonds of depending upon the ideologies of this culture and the “promises of comfort” from this culture, we are doing this in community, depending upon one another to discern God’s activity, and where our calling emerges from this.

There is a “tradition” for all this in the life of The Church of the Saviour in their relatively short history (since 1947). But it is a tradition that reaches further back into a variety of sources. Their work in carrying on a “People’s Seminary” such as in their early “School of Christian Living” and in the present day “Servant Leadership School”, they have been an “aggregator” of great resources for the lifestyle of church and its people. They have always grappled seriously with the issues of money (and so there is a “Ministry of Money” which offers these insights around the country, to the many who realize the captivity to “capitalism” and all its ideological consequences and enslavements.)

These things are just more example of the kind of “Resource Aggregation” could be taken to the Web and discussed via blogs, etc. I feel like I’m about to burst for lack of having an outlet to let flow all of this. I’ve never been able to get over that hump where ideas and passions for this are “implemented”. And so many times what start out as beginnings of conversation that I want to lead into a dialogue on this vision of mine are either not communicated very well, or “sidetracked” into the underlying needs I have to be in such a community. That “sidetrack” is not really a “side issue”. But where it concerns my sense of call to be an enabler of the “structures” through the provision of “content” via online means (ie. blogs and RSS and Databases and their capacity to “store” conversations, links, data relationships, etc.), it seems that the physical, face to face community may well be waiting to be discovered as all of us “ruined” by CoS can find each other in a given locale and actually seek to try this.