Keeping "Organic" Organic

A while ago I was listening to a God Journey podcast by Wayne Jacobsen & Brad Cummings.

Wayne was reading an e-mail from listener who stated that she had just come out of a "movement" she had been involved in for the last 10 years. Her summary of the whole experience was that she had suffered more wounds in that "movement" than she had during her time in the "traditional, institutionalized structure" . . .

The "movement" she had come out of?
Organic . . .

What do we make of this? We can come away cynical. We can get defensive. We can "go on the attack" . . .
Or we can step back and ask some interpretive questions.
What are we looking for? Too often we take something that Papa God is doing and try to "put it in a box". Give it a label. Turn it into a "movement" . . create a structure which then turns into a monument which then we build an institution around . . . an empire founded upon . . . a denomination . . .

What are we looking for? A quick fix? Something to which find our identity in, our purpose . . . our ontological substantiation? Something to "belong to . . ."?

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" (Romans 8:15 ESV)

This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?"
(Romans 8:15 MSG)

The Good News: You already belong. You have an identity.

The best way to join in is to daily focus outside of yourself and ask:

"What's next, Papa?"

That way you will always find yourself involved in exactly what He is doing . . . in you, in others and in many surprising ways and places.

And that will always be very organic . . .

just don't look for a label.