ORGANIZED OR ORGANICIZED?

While the church of the Bible is often seen as a work in the wild, the church this current age develops seems to be more like a cool walk in the park.  Two different ages reveal very different results; each claiming to fit the Word of God.

There are certainly many things going right in the church.  Too, a very exciting element is that regardless of tenure even the most proficient and the most devoted are found to be lacking compared to the stature of Jesus.

I find this to be an exhilarating in challenge.  The longer we are in the church the more excited we find ourselves as our concept of God increases as our faith grows.  We must be alert to His cutting-edge call for possibly our ears have grown dull from repetitive church-life.

Howard Snyder is credited as saying, Church growth is a matter of removing the hindrances to growth.  The church will naturally grow if not limited by unbiblical barriers.

Organized or organic?  This seems to be a puzzling matter which might flush out some of the unbiblical barriers which have caused the church to become actively stagnant. We make renewed efforts to be better organized.  Organic?  When was the last time you heard it said in any meeting, We just must get better organicized?

So what would this look like?  Organized we get.  Whether we succeed at it, we get it. Move pieces to the puzzle here and rearrange personnel there.  Reorganization is an effort to pump new blood into an established system.

Organic, on the other hand, would seem to be a natural-according-to-the-Spirit process.  Prayer, mystery, anticipationary faith, linked with ultra-confidence in Spirit activity would seem to fit the parameters of organic.  We participate (walk by faith) while expecting Him to take surprise routes to effective results.

Organization can become, to some, merely one more god; even a more see-able god. Organic in style is an inward ability to go with the flow of God; we plant, we water, yet only God on His terms gives the increase.  His giving will often be from the strangest of reservoirs that man's organizational approach would have never deemed probable.

The former tries to give assurance to each step in the process.  The latter goes out not knowing where we are going.  The latter is the full force of faith.

Finally, organization has an ability to take the man-fear away.  Organic procedures embedded in the Spirit tend to lead us to put  God-trust in motion.