Church Of The Aimless Wanderer

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  • assumptions

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    When first meeting someone, if we’re nor careful, we start making assumptions, and so we do both them and ourselves a disservice, and dilute the preciousness of the moment. Even though light travels very fast, by the time it reaches our eye, where it came from has changed. As we all do, everyone and everything.

    If we can let assumptions go, before they take hold, we can begin maybe to catch glimpses of what holds us all together, makes us one. We can begin to rest in the moment. Which in some vital sense, is all there ever is.

    George Bacon – copyright March 2024

  • everyone’s a Christian

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    Everyone is a Christian, it seems to me. Most of us, including many so-called Christians, have precious little idea what that means. Put simply, to me it means we are all undeniably part of the body of Christ.

    Different groups or seekers state it differently, but in all mature faith traditions the connectedness of everyone and everything is revered and celebrated, and what connects all is what Christ is, at least Christ is a word that refers to that.

    Our loving, everywhere God is both in everything and contains everything; “..in whom we live, and move and have our being…”. Christ is what enables that. Jesus humanly embodies that. Its not a joining thing, its a recognising and celebrating thing. I believe deep down everyone believes there’s something, albeit nameless, that moves through and connects us all.

    Church history being what it is, the word is emotionally charged. As the word is widely used, Christians consider themselves separate from non Christians, who are mostly happy to be excluded. This circling the wagons, divisive world view is illusionary and dangerous. There is no them and us, there’s just us.

    Rather than discard a word that has fallen into misuse, I am moved to redefine it, recall its origins and breathe new life into it on behalf of us all.

    Everyone is a Christian.

    copyright March 2024 George Bacon