New!
Posted By: Zach Hoag
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By now most of you guys know that Dwell is moving into a new space starting this Sunday, July 4th. The space is on 266 South Champlain St. and our first gathering will be with our sister church, Mosaic.
Something you might not know is why the blog has been a bit dormant of late. It's definitely because of general busyness, but it's also because we are gearing up for a new approach to blogging at Dwell, a community approach.
Pretty soon, several folks at Dwell will be posting to this Posterous blog: The Daily Missioner. And posts from that blog will be fed directly to the Dwell site.
And I think that there is something significant about these things, taken together. That something is simply that we are in a time of newness, a season wherein God is highlighting that this Dwell community is a part of the BIG NEW THING that God is doing in the world in general, a new thing called new creation.
Understanding new creation is easiest when you trace it back from it's fulfillment. At the conclusion of the Story, John the Revelator says this:
Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth," for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Look! God's dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 'He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death' or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!"
That final city, that final earth, that final dwelling place for God and his people, is already being created now, only to be finished then. New space, new blog, new Dwell - all of these small things are signs of the big thing, that we are God's people, newly created by the resurrected and ascended King in the power of his Spirit. We are his new people, and he dwells in the world through us, filling every thing in every way.
Indeed, making everything new, in Burlington and beyond.
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