Two days ago my wife awoke and told me a dream she had about the human race and its relationship to the church. It was a story of gathering, seeking, hoping to find an answer by going to a church building. My wife said that she was at the foot of Jesus, sensing his presence. Thinking that she should not be there with so many others seeking, she moved out to where the congregation had gathered, and could not find a seat or a place that felt appropriate. As she moved among the congregation, she felt the unease and the dissatisfaction, the sense of hopelessness. She awoke distrubed and asked me what this dream meant.
For me the dream is simple to understand. She sensed being at one with Jesus. She sensed the reality of the Atonement. No one presided over the congregational meeting because Jesus was present. The organized church cannot produce the Atonement, cannot portray it, cannot create it. The congregation seeks the Atonement and yet cannot find it in organized churchianity or christianisms.
Atonement is devotion and worship at the feet of Jesus.
For me the dream is simple to understand. She sensed being at one with Jesus. She sensed the reality of the Atonement. No one presided over the congregational meeting because Jesus was present. The organized church cannot produce the Atonement, cannot portray it, cannot create it. The congregation seeks the Atonement and yet cannot find it in organized churchianity or christianisms.
Atonement is devotion and worship at the feet of Jesus.
