I have been reading the early church fathers and I'm amazed in the creative and life-giving ways they lived their lives for God. So as I have been praying and thinking about the church lately, here are four areas I believe the church needs to make a change, an evolutionary leap, a transformation if its going to advance forward rather than surrender or retreat to the culture at large.
1. A shift in thinking dichotomously (dualistically) to synthetically (heaven/earth, matter/spirit, mind/heart; etc.)
2. A shift in thinking linearly to laterally. We quit looking only at the moment but all of time (saints throughout all of history are alive with us). We examine things not just one way (linear) but look at many sides of the truth of the matter (laterally).
3. A shift from thinking marginally to liminality. The church stops marginalizing its own or outsiders as the enemy and looks at creating space for all people (liminality).
4. A shift in thinking binary (either/or) to holistically (both/and). The church recognizes that both heaven and earth matter and it strives as Christ's bride for the unity of all things in all things.
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