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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The Emergent Church Creed

I believe, but not with absolute certainty,
in a majestic mysterious divine being who cannot be comprehended,
the initiator of Darwinian Evolution.


And in Jesus, whom we agree to follow with a humble hermeneutic,
who was conceived by the Mother Spirit (aka Sarayu from The Shack)
born of Mary who probably wasn’t a virgin 

(it really wouldn't matter if she was or wasn’t)
who was crucified under Pontius Pilate
in order to expose the evils of the Roman Empire and motivate 

us to defect from all Imperial framing stories.
On the third day He/She rose in the hearts of His/Her followers 

(getting hung up in Modernist arguments for or against Jesus' 
bodily resurrection entirely misses the point and the beauty 
of the resurrection narratives) 
He/She ascended into heaven and
He/She is dreaming and hoping that we’ll follow His/Her 

examples of feeding the poor, embracing the “other” and 
non-violent passive resistance and thereby dismantle the 
theo-capitalist suicide machine and create an economically 
sustainable and socially just Kingdom of God on Earth  
(aka Global Marxist Socialism)
so that He/She can return, glorify us and give us all a big group hug.

 
I believe the mysterious divine being embraces all of us in community
through questions and conversations. 

(Answers are not needed and only impede the journey.)
Homosexuality is a gift to be embraced instead of a sin to be repented of,
and that there are also followers of god in the way of Allah, Buddha, and Vishnu.
 

I believe that Love Wins and
that the divine being will ultimately help us all embrace the divine spark 

(Imago dei) within all of us so that we can become one with the great 
mysterious majestic spirit and experience self-actualization, the next 
evolutionary leap and the life of the ages.
Peace out.
Namiste

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