Today we visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Clearly there are many and wondrous things to see and do. But by days end two things were made abundantly clear to me: A group of 12 cannot make a decision if the goal is to agree on what everyone is supposed to do next and if you want to engage the public around difficult ideas such as global warming and physics, you must be loud, messy, high energy, and hand out stickers.
These two truths seem applicable to my world in the mainline church. One: Although we were one family, we went round and round about what to see when to eat etc. Our only hope was to finally abandon the notion of unanimity and break into smaller affinity groups. Should the Church be different? Are many denominations an offence to the unity of Christ or our only hope of not killing each other.
All of the presentations were loud, upbeat, showy, with stickers and stuff. It was science Vacation Bible School. The cool thing about science is that the ideas and theories translate into demonstration. You can see and hear the principles in action. Is this not, in a way, the sacraments? Perhaps if the bread exploded....
Just some thoughts while wandering around.
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