Chris and I leave early tomorrow morning for the thrills only the thriving city of Great Bend, Kansas can provide. Great Bend is about 4 hours from here. Sadly, I’ve been there once or twice, when Chris’ band played out there. Our friends Todd & Taasha are getting married and Chris is doing the music for the wedding.
On another note, I read a comment made by Dean Sharp on James Petticrew‘s site today. It’s a little R-rated, but in a Song of Songs kind of way. I found it to be beautiful and one of the clearest pictures of love I’ve ever read. So, I thought I’d post it. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Have a lovely weekend.
It’s all about sex.
Sex is an obsession, a friction, a movement in which lovers both lose and find themselves in one another. The groom initiates, the bride responds and opens herself to him. Sex is complete focus, exposure, and intimacy.
Sex is a metaphor (perhaps the most powerful one in existence) for worship, which is why most love songs are only worship hymns in disguise. And what comes of it? What is the result of the friction and intensity of this symphony? Crescendo. The end result of sexual intimacy is the outflow, the overflow, of the seeds of new life. Sex makes babies. Do we think this is just a coincidence?
Mission is the outflow, the overflow, of becoming infatuated with Him again. I tire of the discussion missing the mark … modern, postmodern, futurist, traditional, emergent … whatever. The ONLY reason the church stops making babies is because we’ve stopped making love to the Bridegroom. That’s the birds and the bees of spiritual reality.
In the ongoing cloning debate, my real question is a completely metaphysical one. I have no doubt that soon we’ll be able to reproduce a human body without sexual biology. I’m just wondering if we’ll discover that we cannot produce a human soul without sexual intimacy. The metaphor is such a primal one, I could be wrong but, I seriously doubt God will be willing to give it up.
Churches also play around with cloning. Despite our new methodologies (spiritual technology, which I love) the church has yet to successfully reproduce the spirit of Christ in bodies that are not born of that intimacy.
And I don’t think we ever will, or should ever want to.
this feels slightly awkward, but i actually feel as if i have something to say about this. keep in mind i’m only 17 and have never experienced this “beautiful metaphor” being described.
i think that for some sex can also at times be percieved as kind of scary, one because it’s unkown, or two because it has been previously approaced the wrong way. A relationship with Christ can be compared to that as well, in the fact that for a moment when you lose youself to be able to find yourself in Him, you do have to lose yourself, throw yourself into the unknown for a moment, let go of control, and allow someone else, whom you can’t control, to catch you. And in finding what is sacred, if approached the wrong way, you will blow right past it and the beautiful meaning of it is lost. After a moment of pleasure, you find only pain and emptiness untill you realize that only Christ is Sacred.
tracy
Very, very awesome comment Tracy. That’s great stuff.
those of us in great bend (with free wifi) decided you look like a gremlin with a snow helmet…
hehe
love you!!! see you tomorrow!!!
Now THAT is a church I want to be in! :)
Dang it Anne you have done it again. You too, Tracy. With out excuse this is the church that I would attend every time the doors were open, whether it was Christmas morning or not. Thank you for that.
cool! dean and tina will be here today for the BBQ… nah nah neeh nah neeh nah! lol
on another note:
laser drill? now, why don’t they have that at my office? newport beach should have that as standard.
And may I say that I am looking forward to the days when I can freely worship God like that.
Naked and without shame, baby… all night long.
I’m getting ahead of myself.
I actually have some serious thoughts about sex. Hard to believe, I’m sure.
CH
good stuff, anne…
what i don’t get is why guys don’t see how incredibly blessed they could be to be married to a worship leader who understands, um, other ways of expressing worship. :)
I see the blessing in that.
gee, thanks… :)
hmmmm
“I tire of the discussion…”
and
ultimate intimate sexual intimacy…
works for me!
I wonder how adversity and brokenness might play into this metaphor.
Let me preface this whole post by saying that I live in the buckle of the bible belt – Tennessee. I love getting to know folks from around the country because I find your thoughts, your ideas, your worship – so refreshingly pure and raw. I sometimes wish I were capable of this and then I am reminded I am. Pray for me friends – I am a recovering legalist, well doctrinated in the “churchology” of thou shall and thou shall not, I limit Christ and what He wants to do in my life.
I read this amazing … poem I guess and wonder: If only churches in the mainstream saw worship this way. We would not need to worry about “finding the nonbelievers” – they would be knocking down our door! My church is literally 1 mile from the campus of the University of Tennessee. It is my thought that if I could get a sense of worship like this into the church family I love, we would be tearing that place up for Jesus. I am itchy, my palms are getting sweaty all by thinking about this. I LONG for this kind of relationship with my Savior; so much more that the deep longing to have a future wife and be a daddy. Wow!
Thank you for sharing this! It has spurred me on.
thanks for the comment on my xanga…God is stirring the nations heart for my city and country…I just helped plant a church in edinburgh this summer…everynation edinburgh…its part of the everynation body of churches around the world, including in the usa.
Its exciting the different people God is drawing to my land, to help redeem and reconcile what has been lost and forgotten.