Just Dreaming

I've been trying to figure out how I can best explain what it is I am hoping to do with the program I am set to embark on with the Missional Wisdom Foundation.

Part of the problem for me is that my thinking/dreaming is in a sort of infancy stage. I have a rather fuzzy notion about what I'd like the end product to be. Nothing clear. Nothing distinct. Which of course is a very big reason why I am pursuing this particular course of training and formation in the first place.

What I know for certain is that I want to be part of something different than what typically goes on in most of our churches today, and I am fairly certain that other people do to. Which is why they are leaving the church. It's not that they are not faith-filled people, it's that they see the church as largely irrelevant.

Here's what I know for sure:

• I don't want to hear a sermon but then have no clear way to live its implications out during the week. 
• I don't want to be part of a social club that gathers on Sunday and for the occasional game night on Saturday evening.
• I don't want to be a part of system whose sole aim is to perpetuate itself or to keep a building up and running. 

I don't know at this point what an alternative, missional sort of community will look like. I don't know the form such a community might take shape in my particular context of Mount Vernon, Iowa. 

I don't know because, right now, I am just dreaming.