Welcome to The Great Dance. This is a place for safe conversation. It is my hope that you will respectfully share your opinions on things about God, religion and life. So let’s get started.
For thousands of years we humans have been arguing about God and religion. Each of the major religions of the world has decided they are the true religion of God. It has gotten to the point that many people, perhaps even you yourself, have thrown in the towel of religion and opted not to participate. I can’t say I blame you… and I’m a pastor! So that is why The Great Dance was created.
In this space we are given the commission to discover God all over again. Except this time we’ll do it without the cloak of religion to hide behind. If we are going to be honest about our conversation we must be naked about our thoughts, fears, points of anger or frustration and those things that make us go, “WOW!”
Prior to the creation of anything, God existed. As Father, Son and Holy Spirit, God had no need for the existence of anything else. God was complete and in loving harmony in his ‘personae.’ It is the great enigma of God as three yet one, one yet three, that causes us to stand in awe and reverence. Author and theologian Dr. C. Baxter Kruger calls their existence a perichoresis or “circle dance.” Its choreography so beautiful as to deny where one ‘persona’ ends and the next begins. As Dr. Kruger puts it, it is a shared unity that is so incredible that “one cries and all taste the salt.”
It is into that dance that God has brought his creation through Jesus. This is significant in its thinking. Modern theology since the Enlightenment keeps man outside this dance with God pushing a few in through the logic of its apologetics, the inspiration of it grand evangelistic events, the entertainment of its concerts or the fear of its hell houses. All of this make the God of the perichoresis appear weak, unable to convince his Creation to join him.
But the God of Creation who is all powerful is greater than that. Through the Incarnation, Life, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, God has become unified with the experience of the Creation. Now, the Creation is inside the dance all the while trying to deny it is worthy of being in the dance. Think of the implications of such a theology!
So join me now as we start to consider how this thelogy could impact the church. I welcome all comments positive and negative as long as they are posted in a spirit of discovery. It is in asking challenging questions that we will all “grow in the grace and knowledge or our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”
