I love how God can give clarity to the mind and heart of a sincere person of faith. I especially love how this can happen through a biblical passage that has been read over and over, and then boom, there's an answer!

One of the exciting things about being alive now and ministering in this world of change is that "we" get to make things happen with a new set of rules, with a new set of values, and a new theology. We don't have to conform to old structures, even though we are at complete liberty to steal the good stuff from those structures we're abandoning. We ourselves don't have a clue what this thing we might refer to as postmodern ministry is going to look like in ten years, five years, or even two years. All we know is that something big is happening before our very eyes.

Wow! What insight! What depth! What profundity! Ummm, not really . . . my time with God this morning had me reading and meditating on Hebrews 11:8-10. Abraham's faith is celebrated because he trusted God enough to pick up everything he had and go live as a stranger in a strange land (even though that land was his by promise of God). He and his son and grandson lived in that land in tents, not buildings. Why would he live in tents instead of houses? ". . . he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God."

That's a great challenge to me and the emerging generation (what I like to call eGen, because I'm lazy). We don't - and shouldn't - look to the standard structures for God's promise. The truth is, we can't design a new system that will work, so why even try? Let's look for the place God has promised us - the city of which he is the architect and builder. That sounds like the kind of city that the gates of hell can't stand against.

That's all.