Explanation

Prosthetics rock. They enable. We overcome adversity with them. Insurmountable odds, you know? Climbing Everest on a fake leg. Sweeet. William Wallace. Freeeeeeedom.

I see the age of the church that we're exiting as an age of prosthetics. This is most easily evident in youth minsitry. Think about it for yourself. The very term youth, or teenager, is a construct that is not very good. the affluent 1950's culture that gave us youth ministry as it is, is going, going gone...

Youth ministry has been a great prosthesis.
Childrens ministry, too...

But God is calling us to be a whole family.

They were great prostheses, but they didn't stem the tide of divorce, adn brokenness that betrayed what was under the pantleg: we are MAIMED, american church!
and now, we're worse off! There's a footlet down there.

we're sentenced to about a generation of waiting for the completion.

let's not squirm.
let's not cut it off...
let it grow...
change our mobility.
our monthly budgets.
our expectations
our anticipations.
in light of the fact
that God
is healing us
painfully
setting things right

now scroll down and read that post.