the “god-element”
read this article the other day about how scientists at a lab in Chicago have created the largest loop (not a scientist so please forgive me if i mess this up) that has created the largest atom (?) and they are crashing the atoms together to try to get down to the lowest physical property on earth – they are calling it, privately of course, “the god element.” officially it is named after some scientist. they are all shook up because the European Union has built a bigger lab with a bigger loop that has potential to beat them to the “god element.”
this brings to mind a little of the conversation on twitter a couple of days ago. is the church organism or organization? here is my take on that – every organism has organization or it falls apart. Jesus said, “I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.” faith begins as a tiny atom/seed of thought in a person’s life – “is there a God?” “how did all of this stuff get here?” etc. etc. that faith is germinated and grows into a living breathing person of faith, but 99.99% of the time without an organization to attach itself too that faith will die.
so we may glamorize the church as an organism, fluid, changing, alive, without the organization the organism dies. i’m not particularly enamored with some forms the church takes, but the church has many forms. think of the body. how many expressions of the body are there? does being black, white, yellow, or red make you any less a body? does being small, medium, or large, or in my case, extra large make us less of the body? But to live we must be connected to the vine, the body, the bride.
so the question is not organism or organization – it is are you connected? because then the organism lives!
