inspiral blog

Since the lectionary reading this week was the famous “do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink…” from the Sermon on the Mount, I decided it was time to introduce dumpster diving as a practical way we can enter the abundant economy of God (while helping reduce some of the waste of the world’s economy). More on dumpster diving can be found here, if you’re not familiar with it, and we used the article here to provoke discussion. Megan led most of it, which was great as dd isn’t something I’ve done a lot of (a bit, but not a lot), and her friend Karen chipped in too. But it looks like something we’ll be able to do a lot more often.

That was followed by some useful discussion about the economy of God – what is it like? How deep do we go into poverty before it’s “enough”? How much is too much to own? Is superannuation anathematic to the Kingdom? All these questions and more were batted around. Finally we were left with the fact that living into the Kingdom, particularly for we wealthy, privileged westerners, is a process that takes time. So we’d best be patient and gracious with ourselves, lest it become yet another form of legalism.