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Something big is happening. Bigger than what we're doing. Bigger than what we're expecting.They say, You can never go home again. And science is proving this adage true. Were rapidly approaching a moment in technology from which we will never return. Few realize, though, the same thing is happening in every part of lifeincluding our spirituality.Like the earliest believers, we can see "a rare and momentous alignment of forces." This Spirit-birthed age is birthing spirit! The very dynamics that define the emerging church also define the first century Church: a new communitya new communicationa new reconciliationa new creativityand a new power.Yes, the "Word" remains the "Word," but the "proofs" of old dogmas are fading. The apologetics of old "experts" are failing. And the arguments of old beliefs are falling. As past leaders try making the future more "thinkable," future leaders are trying on the "unthinkable." For no theology can tame the wildness of the spiritual frontier.It's an emerging church. Yet, it's also a "singularity" church. This strange term begins with the gravitational singularity of a "black hole"a boundary in space beyond which no "light" can reach the observer, or a moment in time from which nothing can return. More bluntly, this "event" represents the end of modern physics as we know it and the birth of something new.Then soon, we saw a similar "singularity" among the amazing trends in technology. And, now, it's no surprise that todays church has become the obvious spiritual parallel to "Technological Singularity": Normal "change" has become abnormal, linear change has become exponential, and expected change has turned unexpected. Increasingly, our world is a "Sorcerer's Apprentice" world where powerful changes are moving beyond our ability to understand, predict or control.This looming crisis is more than the apocalypse of rampant technologymore than the drunken indulgence of a new paganismmore than the demonic quicksand of secular spiritualismmore than the virtual insanity of virtual realitymore than the nihilist networking of global guerrillas. . . . It's the critical mass of all these!It is the ending and beginning of something totally Other. It is the fault line of the future. More important, it is a creative mutation driven by God.So today's leaders rightly fear being left behind. Unfortunately, there is no way they can become tomorrow's spiritual leaders out of today's context. In fact, their future roles will prove just opposite of what they expect. For we are rethinking thinking. . . . The future no longer belongs entirely to cold and calculating brainsthe guys who know only "sequence," "literalness," and "analysis." It belongs, increasingly, to creativity, artistry, and empathymetaphor, meaning, and emotionpattern, synthesis, and the big picture. We are changing, in other words, from charted logic to uncharted "logic"from a literal world to a metaphorical worldfrom facts to phenomena. We are changing from dead metaphors to live metaphorsfrom proofs to paradoxfrom common patterns to juxtapositions. And, we are changing from exaggerated control to controlled exaggerationfrom rhetorical flair to transcendent revelationfrom a "real" world to a virtual reality world.Indeed, we are no longer "thinking" in the old sense of the word. Instead, we are projecting a new worldour thinking is becoming incarnational thinking. In the world of quantum and string theories, for example, we are participants more than spectators. We are co-authors more than bystanders. Our world is more a "Creating" than a "Creation." When whole systems and their partsincluding us!mutually determine one another, the role of divine action takes on an entirely new dimension.So a new body of believers is emerging in this epic moment. Yet, this "Body" is not an organization, it's an organism. It's not an institution, it's a living system. It's not a structure, it's a spontaneous response to the hastening of history.And this future belongs to the faithful who seize this moment.
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