Friday, June 08, 2012

The Church



The Church I would belong shouldn´t be in the city.
I rather like it empty, than piled with benches or people.

The church I will attend to is not that I would visit once on the weekend, but several times, during my life time (but I don´t see it).

The place where I live have too little options.

I left some material conveniences just to avoid the pushing of many events, and the frustrating deception I got while living as a cityman.

Deep in me, I was a hermit; but I became real when I moved to the contryside and could avoid religious opinions, many denominations, I don´t cope with.

In my childhood I was me, a very homie boy, who wished to have his hut on the woods. Grown up, I paid the price, but few churches have been like that I dream of

Did I told I was a street preacher?

My concern was not on attendance, but on spreading the word.

Those days I served and gave the best of me and God paid me back with food, clothing and shoes (but I failed, I went wrong).

I still don´t know why I stopped (something, deep in me,  is crashed: And I don´t know!).

Will you tell me God?

This sadness, this dissatisfaction...    I smell it, almost.

I know part of this, but still: I don´t know!

One thing I´m sure: It shouln´t be with the people I ran from.

It´s not with religiuos legalism, without denominations, and I was baptized by a James Dye, from the Christian Churches (?) when the Team Expansion was working in Venezuela, one July 7th.

In Colombia, two years ago, I shared with several tendencies and, there, catholics prayed together with protestants (but I know this won´t work too long: Different yokes).

Today, oddly, I visit some friends who belong to a movement that they identified with an international ministry related to certain kind of “apostleship” (of course, I don´t believe in Neo-Apostleships same way I disbelieved the Doctrine of Prosperity) Apparently, the came from a branch of the Assemblies of God...

According to my local experience, Pentecostalism and Jah´-witness are growing in the countryside. There, I don´t want my picture taken! (I can´t tell you a dream I consider a vision: If its signs appear, I´ll do what that vision spoke to me...). Meanwhile, I consider safer my Secular Hermit´s doctrine

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