VENUES AND VERNACULARS

Most people operate within the venues that they have always known.  There are more “settlers” than “pioneers.”  We are bred, born and brought forth into what we understand to be “church.”

We pioneers continue to introduce new venues as our journey progresses.  We are certain that we have it “right.”  Yet, given a few years, it becomes necessary to “pioneer” a new venue, because we are now seeing more clearly than before.  Hmmmm!

Traveling from nation to nation allows us to hear a variety of vernaculars.  I have found that interpreters are better at communicating than translators.  It is especially helpful to work with someone who not only knows the language of the land, but also knows my heart and grasps (at least to some extent) what I am trying to communicate.

We find the same thing when we travel from denomiNATION to denomiNATION within the same town.  Venues vary.  So do vernaculars. 

It seems that God is still confounding the languages of everyone who is trying to build a tower to heaven with their own ingenuity and under their own power.  We don’t understand one another.  We even look at the Bible from varying perspectives.

There is a common venue and vernacular!

Living stones being built together into a habitation for God is the priority venue. 

There is a common language ~ the vernacular of the Holy Spirit ~ that is mutually discerned via committed hearts and yielded souls.

We must find one another.

In the process, we will necessarily look past current venues and vernaculars.

We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. – II Corinthians 4:7.