I've never been quick at learning new languages…
Knowledge is such a crazy thing. No matter how much you learn and how much you study, you don’t even come close to learning all there is on any subject. In fact, the thing I’ve probably learned the most from all my years of school and personal study is that I’ve barely scratched the surface of what there is to know.
I’ve recently been trying to “catch up” on the concepts and ideas of the “missional” crowd. I can’t believe that, after four years in Bible school and five years in seminary, I never interacted with these ideas. I graduated thinking that I could at least engage in the conversation, but the more I read, the more I realize how poor my grasp on the language really is.
In one, five, ten years, maybe I’ll understand enough to speak in the community, although I doubt I’ll ever really be that fluent. My wonder, though–is there another dialect I should be learning to speak that I’m currently completely overlooking?
I wish there was a Rosetta Stone program for all this stuff…
Have you had a chance to watch the videos of this years WEC with with Michael Frost as the speaker? Wow – powerful message that probably made a lot of the DTS folks uncomfortable. Which is good. They need to be. I know he stretched me with his ideas, and the priority of a missional focus.