Unless a Seed Falls, or, Beyond Dog Dung

Death and resurrection are a becoming a theme for me these days. Still ruminating and mulling over many things as they are being worked out in my own life - so I don't have a lot to articulate personally yet (beyond what I've already expressed here, here, and here, for example). But I'm enjoying sharing with you some of the insights and quotes from other people who've walked the road, and hope that they are meaningful to you as well as myself.

"Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone, never anything more than a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it sprouts up and reproduces itself many times over."

-Jesus (John 12:24 - an amalgamation of translations).


"Periodically one will hear in Christian circles a call to "radical discontinuity." This call is frequently mentioned as the cure for a healthier church whether it comes from those promoting a "Post-Modernistic" perspective or a radical discontinuity from the current style of Christian ministry to that of the First Century.

Perhaps a key to healthier Christian ministry is that the seed would fall in the lives of every Christian leader, every Christian assembly, in every Christian's heart in every place in the world. If the seed of our current expectations of ministry would fall to the ground and die, the result would be the most healthy, vigorous and radical transformation of the church of Jesus Christ.

This transformation would be poised to make disciples of all nations--without discrimination, without judgmentalism free of the imprisonment of unscriptural tyrannical traditionalism, perfectionism and ways of the world which otherwise impede the message of the resurrection.

This radical discontinuity would bring radical transformation. But, given the reality and the historical-spiritual reality of the resurrection, would the resurrected Christ want anything less?"

-Thomas Fischer, Unless Your Seed Falls.

I recommend reading Fischer's message (linked above) in it's entirety.