The Jewish prophets had one foot in Israel and one foot outside and beyond. So must you have one foot in your faith community and one foot in the world; one foot in your historical denomination and one foot in your emerging world of service, study, prayer, or what I call “lifestyle Christianity,” moving beyond belief systems to actual practices and decisions about how you live your daily life and how you give it away.
As the 12th Step recognizes in Alcoholics Anonymous, we do not really appropriate things ourselves until we actively hand them on to others.
Always we have to find the Love, and then give the Love away; and it is amazing how the two events do not always happen within the same group. I think they are both training grounds, one for the other. One is the spring and well, the other is the channel that keeps the well from becoming brackish and stagnant.
Richard Rohr
Adapted from Radical Grace: Daily Meditations, p. 78
(Source: The Great Themes of Scripture)
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