If I asked you to describe your faith, what would you say? Maybe that’s it’s central to your life. Or maybe that it’s something you rely on to get you through challenging times. Maybe for you faith is a constant, never-wavering fact of existence. Or maybe it’s something you struggle with, doubt regularly, and question often.
Would you ever describe your faith as an
adventure
?
Over the last few weeks, Crossroads has been exploring a book together called
Process Theology: Embracing Adventure with God
. This book encourages the cultivation of our individual and shared connections with the presence of God so that our faith becomes a living, vital, integral part of who we are and how we show up in the world.
Process Theology helps us to see, whether we’ve recognized it previously or not, that our
whole lives
are adventures with God.
Faith isn’t static or stagnant. Our expression and experience of our faith changes with us and breathes with us - contracting and expanding, growing and shrinking, becoming blurry or crystal clear depending on the moment or circumstance.
As a practice and a framework for our faith, Process Theology is affirmative, inclusive, and welcoming. Process Theology celebrates God’s presence in our day-to-day lives, including the natural world. Process Theology helps us to break down barriers of “us versus them” or “the right way versus the wrong way” and calls us instead to embrace our uniqueness, our differences, those things that make each of us special and distinct as living emanations of God. And Process Theology turns our attention to the light of the Christed child within us all - the pure heart that Jesus exemplified, which inspires us to act with compassion, forgiveness, service, and wisdom as a blessing to our neighbors as well as ourselves.
Our vision for Crossroads’ children and students is that they are given the tools to live and thrive while taking part in this extraordinary adventure with God that will span their entire lifetime. We are creating curriculum, programs, Passage events, service opportunities, and more that are based on the principles of Process Theology. Some of these are already in place, and more will be implemented in the months to come.
By nurturing our children and students’ awareness of their co-creative, adventurous relationship with God, the light of the Christ will always have a dwelling place within them.
This
is the rock of faith upon which Jesus tells us “I will build my church” (Matthew 16:18).
Sign up
here
, so we may build the enduring church of the Christ within and live out this exciting adventure with God together… for generations to come.
With immense joy and blessings,
