So here we are, standing at the crossroads, having to decide how we desire to move on as a part of the very fractured Body of Christ.

Surely, what I have shared in response to these questions threatens the status quo of church life. It brings much inconvenience, for it obligates us to deconstruct much of things we have taken for granted for decade upon decade.

Amidst the imperfection of my articulations, whether these words are merely received as the troublesome voice of dissent emanating from a disgruntled Christian or as a prophetic voice in the wilderness depends largely on the spirit of the hearer.

From where I stand, it is my conviction that church life, along with our idea of spirituality, need to be radically deconstructed and reconstructed; not so much that we will be relevant to the times, but that we will be relevant to the coming of the Kingdom.

Too much of our idea of spirituality and the Christian life has been focused on living our lives in the present; this leads us to settle with contentment for sub-standard expressions of who we are as Christians. Perhaps it is time to live a future-oriented (eschatological) life.

But yes, it is just too troublesome. Looking too much like Christ may just get you expelled from the church… it has happened before.

But throughout the ages, we see that the Spirit of God keeps raising people who're foolish enough to think that living the eschatological life is a possibility in the present moment. Every time the church is too fixated on her temporal existence, the Spirit raises from within her a number of people who refuse to resign themselves to this senseless preoccupation with temporality.