seeing 3-d

Yesterday... I had a unique opportunity... a spiritual-life event led by two authors... whose books I've read... and learned from...

Teachers I've only experienced 2-D... through books... or DVD... yesterday I saw... 3-D... the word made flesh...

When our only experience with teachers... is ink on paper... or pixels on screen... additional depth is added by our own imagination... but live... in person... in all their dimensions...
you see they are not tall... or maybe they are...
you hear them speak... unedited...
walk into a bathroom...
drink water...
hear their laughter...
see them animated...
in all their humanness...
their previously flat words... made flesh...

This event... possessed an air of the ecumenical... an unusual recognition of the one Church... leaders on one stage... for one purpose... Quaker... Methodist... Baptist... Episcopal... Catholic... gathered... to bring glory to God the Father... through Jesus the Son... by way of the Spirit that's Holy...
A glimpse... a taste... of the Church... 3-D... different denominations... outside their one tradition... one understanding... coming together... to encourage the One Body...

The message... one He has been speaking to me... became a little louder... yesterday...

The Church... the Body of Christ... it's role is to make Jesus 3-D... to a world that is dark... hungry... lost... broken...
Unless we let Him fill us... deepen us... add depth to us... we are a flat... lifeless... representation... of Him... to the world...

Only when we surrender...
die to self...
allow Him to heal...
redeem...
restore...
by grace...
and fully live in... and through... us...
wherever...
whenever...
we...
are...
can we be...
the Word made flesh...

We are the light... in the dark...

the fruit... for the hungry...

the Body... that seeks the lost and broken...

Because the real dimension... that makes ALL real... is Jesus...

He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

And he is the head of the body, the church;

he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead,

so that in everything he might have supremacy.

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,

and through him to reconcile to himself all things,

whether things on earth or things in heaven,

by making peace through his blood shed on the cross. ...

...the glorious riches of this mystery,

which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 1:17-19, 27