Economics

So, I've been reading a book called Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne, and God is doing something in my heart.  I'm so amazed by the thinking process he is taking me through.  To challenge charity, generosity, economy, everything really.  Looking at how things are done, and how we maintain richness, and poverty.  Learning how to go beyond just teaching someone how to fish, how do we go take over the pond we fish from.  How can we defeat the grip of money on us?  He talks about how they trade and barter different things, like time, resources, giftings to help one another out.

I have lived my whole life trying to sustain myself, to not "need others."  I have been missing out on one of the most important functions of the church.  I am not meant to live in a way where I am sustaining myself, I need to live in a community that sustains me.  While I can learn different things to share, they will share with me what I need.  I want to live like that.  How can I move into a place where I live interdependently?  I want to give God everything I have, and I want to take what he has blessed me with to others.  I want to live in a way that honors God, and that allows me to experience life together.  I'm tired of the needless and pointlessness of our Christianity today.  I want something more, I want to follow the Way.

I don't want to just copy what Shane is doing either though.  I want to incorporate things he does into things I already know, and I want to continue learning about the subject of community and loving one another.  I am excited to see how God works all these things out in my life trying to unite the Church.  Go Jesus!