Last night at LGBC we all left with the question “how am I partnering with God?”.  That was actually taken from the study notes that came out of the “Trees” addition of Rob Bell’s Nooma series.  I am finding this to be a remarkably hard question to answer.  In part b/c it’s so very broad.  There can be so many different answers.

One thought we had on this topic that we came up was that, in America we are so prone to think in individualistic terms.  How am “I” partnering with God.  In distinct contrast, the Bible (including the NT) is very communal.  Believers are depicted as part of the body of Christ.  We are not the body of Christ individually.  We function necessarily together.  So, perhaps a better question might be “how are WE partnering with God?”.

Of course, there is personal responsibility depicted in the Bible.  As such, it’s not wrong to consider individual holiness.  But, again, we do individualism really well in the US.  We aren’t lacking for that.  That’s kind of like buying someone who lives in Texas a space heater when it’s July.

Oh well, I don’t have a clean and tidy answer to this.  Just something I’m pondering today.