hearing once again from my best friend's father, an architect, he outlines a similar manifesto as his architecture school's rallying cry
.
now
i am about to undertake a similarly radical paradigm shift in my own
life as i am traveling as this is being written ever forward towards Cerca-la-Source, HAITI.
i surmise that -
altering the professor's original manifesto to suit the collaborative's particular mission, it should help me - and indeed all of our group i surmise that -
- to prepare.
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THIS IS THE MANIFESTO.
Stop doing what is comfortable.
Contrast is good.
When broad, go narrow.
When tall, go low.
When wide, go tight.
When bright, go dark.
When certain, get lost.
When obscure, go clear.
Too much of a good thing is not a good thing.
Always look at the transformation occurring at St. Marc's from varying distances.
Every distance tells you something different.
Contrast is to witnessing as dance is to a dervish.
Always honour the context.
Go first with camouflage.
Then illusion.
Then interpretation.
Always listen.
Go south. Go east. Go west. Go north.
Just get the hell out of Dodge.
Cerca-la-Source is about reclaiming the world.
About helping the world finding her way back to Christ, instead of
ruining most everything she touches.
Go in-between the obvious.
Find threads of ideas and keep working them.
Think Bach fugue.
This trip must have beginnings and endings with syncopation all along the way.
Initiate the threads.
Choreograph the threads.
Pull the threads all the way through.
Beware the lawnmower approach.
Grass can be consistent.
And the Gospel will only be boring.
True evangelism is when they don’t know it happened.
Never go too long with the same thing, unless it is repetition.
A column of faith does more than hold things up.
Witnessing is not a formal inquiry.
It is an expansion of life.
Beginning occurs at frequent intervals and repeatedly throughout the
course of the this trip.
Procrastination is the cancer of the missionary.
Quality is directly proportional to quantity.
Every country is a unique microcosm.
The Word must come to HAITI and rediscover this fact.
To really spread the light, it is best to start with total darkness.
Variation on a theme is a wonderful construct.
It is to play with rules.
There must be rules.
Play is the verb.
There witnessing can happen.
First you must have a theme.
Breakthroughs are a way of life.
You cannot will them, they come only via utmost faith and rigour.
The Gospel of Christ is a thing well played.
At some point your faith will dictate the next steps.
If this doesn’t happen, you are working blind.
Make every decision yield tenfold.
In order for Christ to be fulfilled in Cerca-la-Source, it must contain seeds for the
next 60 years multiplied into the infinite.
Backing up leads to finding more.
Activate the exponential.
The process of evangelism is a case of many avenues moving in
different directions at varying speeds simultaneously.
That is the nature of the process.
If such can be relished, you are doing what HE has called you to do.
The world fears overstepping boundaries. Therefore do it.
Politics. Fear. Tip-toeing. Avenues. Expectations. Status quo. Perceived norms.
Throw them all through the window of political correctness. Shatter the panes.
The Third World is the future of our planet.
The First World must decrease.
Not disappear, just shrink, get poorer, invert, release.
Tomorrow’s world is not about making things equal.
Security of the Gospel is not a matter of maintaining peace or
achieving economic affluence.
It is a direct product of justice and hope.
BUILD CHRIST. BUILD CHRIST. BUILD CHRIST.
