A quote from a friend of Wayne Jacobsen
in a post on Jacobsen's blog, Lifestream, as they contemplate why we "gravitate toward human systems to somehow define or contain the body of Christ":
I suppose the problem is that you can’t really define what is beyond definition in some sense. People want an ecclesiology that they can see, understand, control, or at least that is definitive, ordered, and structured in some sense. They see a pattern or system to everything in the created world and expect the same in the church. What you’re describing is far too dynamic. People want to see and know what their role is in all of this. After all these years, we still want a king of our own flesh, just like Israel and a defined kingdom. We want a simpler order, hierarchy, methodology, or system. The order within a fractal is too complex!
. . . . In some sense its very simple to grasp. In another, it’s way over our heads, and not wanted because it’s not within our control, nor does it have the appearance of order in a simple way.
A quote from a friend of Wayne Jacobsen in a post on Jacobsen's blog, Lifestream, as they contemplate why we "gravitate toward human systems to somehow define or contain the body of Christ":