Different Roads

I was chatting to a friend the other day about my original idea for my MA dissertation, which had the working title of ‘Sin, Sex and Satan’, but with hindsight and in the words of Willy Mason ‘Gotta Keep On Movin’. And moved I did. Obviously it is much easier to try and examine an effective dialogue-paradigm between traditional models of church and emergent ones. A further conversation reminded me about wireless communities and whether what I previously wrote really has substance to it, or whether as has been mentioned ‘It is in [the] desert, as we wander together as nomads, that God is to be found’ (from Peter Rollins’ ‘How (Not) to speak of God’ quoted in review by TallSkinnyKiwi).
One of the reasons I was originally attracted -or found a ‘home- in Anglicanism was because my previous expereince of christian communities seemed shallow, rootless and in need of a deeper journey within. Anglicanism offered me a place to explore, even at times a place to scream and yet God never stops moving or more accurately I never stop moving towards where God has been. And yet, now, I again am wanting to root or maybe merge the experience of that which speaks of a God who has been faithful with a God whose faithfulness is revealed in the life lived now, shaped through the days and nights yet to come.
When John V Taylor in ‘The Go-Between God’ wrote about the playful Spirit was he seeing a vision of mission which was holistic in orthopraxis and ecclesiological structures in a way that not only where the Spirit is-are we free, but where we can be so that the Spirit is free. ‘… as a result of institutionalizing the expereince of the Holy Spirit his special gifts were removed entirely from the normal life and witness of the church and limited either to the aristocracy [or] transformed individuals’ (p209, Taylor, 1972).
I am hoping that through the gift of an opportunity I have to study that the area I am researching would reveal certain creative and dynamic ways forward in order that Anglicanism does not become split between de-emergent and post-emergent in a way that creates yet another vaccuum.