{"id":2759,"date":"2016-11-01T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplemaker.org\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2016-11-01T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T20:30:53","slug":"urgent-questions-for-these-urgent-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2016\/11\/urgent-questions-for-these-urgent-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent Questions For These Urgent Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Can you feel it?
\nCan you name it?
\nIn one of the most divisive seasons in recent history, are we perhaps more united than we think?<\/strong>
\nWe\u2019re not united ideologically, politically, or in terms of our religious beliefs, but we never have been. Our country was founded upon the idea that we must extend freedom to one another to disagree on those very matters. Our country was founded upon the idea that freedom is not something you hoard, but something you sacrifice so that others might also have it.
\nAnd yet, we seem to have turned that idea in on itself, and we are clamoring for our own freedom, stepping over anybody else who challenges it.<\/p>\n

The American dream has been hijacked by scarcity, and we are starving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lurking just underneath the vitriol and violence of this election cycle is a universal and deep hunger for a sense of real belonging and freedom to be all that we actually are.
\nBecause we\u2019re withholding freedom from one another, we\u2019re profoundly lonely and we finally feel it on a societal level.
\nThe American dream has been hijacked by scarcity, and we are starving.
\nThe empty and individualistic promise that you can be anything you want to be has been exposed as true only for a few of us. The rest of us are finding our voice, and it\u2019s coming out awkward, sometimes violent, like a teenager with an underdeveloped ability to say what\u2019s really going on inside. Like all revolutions, those in power are protective of what they\u2019ll lose, and critical of the teenager who can\u2019t say clearly what she needs. They\u2019re punitive because she\u2019s moody and violent. They\u2019re dismissive because they don\u2019t understand her. But she\u2019s not going away.
\nI\u2019d like to translate for her. She cares deeply about us and about the future of us, in a way that is breathtaking if you can see it and hear it.<\/strong>
\nShe\u2019s hungry for her serious questions to be taken seriously.
\nShe\u2019s hungry to see wise elders making wise choices.
\nShe\u2019s hungry to see broken things be made whole.
\nShe\u2019s hungry for honesty about life\u2019s complexities.\"find-your-voice\"
\nShe\u2019s hungry for an expansive understanding of herself and the Divine.
\nShe\u2019s hungry for more and better questions before quick and easy answers.
\nShe\u2019s hungry to grow into herself.
\nNone of these things can happen without a table around which she can sit and be nourished<\/strong>, around which she can listen and be listened to. She is desperate right now for some wise people who might have the patience to watch her grow up. She needs space and time and a few elders who might extend her the freedom to believe passionately and even differently.
\nShe will lead us into the future, whether we help her grow up or whether we kick her out of the house.
\nWill we rise up to share space with her?
\nWill we create safe places of belonging without demanding agreement with your ideals?
\nWill we extend freedom to her even at the expense of our own?
\nThese are urgent questions for an urgent time.
\nWho will allow space to talk about them?<\/p>\n

\n

Steve Wiens<\/strong> is the pastor of Genesis Covenant Church in Maple Grove, MN. He is the author of Beginnings: The First Seven Days of the Rest of Your Life<\/em><\/a>. Listen to his podcast, This Good Word<\/a>, as he reclaims what is holy in our humanity.
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