Z-theory #21: church

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about church.

And I’ve been thinking a lot about the Z-theory. Someone just reminded me of it again this morning.

The two are related. (I remind you that the Z-theory is based on a dream I had of a waterfall.) The top is the Ultimate Source. The falls is the Incarnating act of that Source. Finally, the flood plain is the Experiential Manifestation of the Ultimate Source, because of the Incarnate Act, into our every day life.

Let me quote from something I wrote:

The “spirit” is not a separate entity “out there”. It is actually experienced in love. This is how it is known. As we work together for justice, peace and love, the unfolded extends and spreads throughout the earth. When we recognize that we are all one from the One, this is the spirit… not the spirit at work, but the spirit really. I hesitate to speak of spirit apart from matter. It is becoming more evident, for instance, that consciousness cannot be separated from the brain organism. This watershed, which we are and are in, is the complete and total incarnation, the investment, the pouring out of the Ultimate Source into the everyday mundane life of every one of us.

Is it possible that the church is really without walls, no longer in temples made with hands, but permeated throughout human life and experience? Is it possible that since The All is now really In All that we all are the church? Is it possible that it is impossible to go to church, for it is impossible to escape it? Unless we deny the reality of unity we share with all others! I suggest that where there is a community of even two or three with the intention of forgiveness, reconciliation, love and ultimately unity, with expressions of justice and peace, there is the spirit.

Where there is the spirit, it can be nothing other than church… that is, the people of the Infinite Ultimate. There is no building. There is no liturgy. There is no separation or division. But there is the incarnational manifested in unity.