do you come from a land down under

again, a great song
i just wanted to note, here, even though i only just blogged, that one of the little things i'm excited about about this weekend is that i met this really cool girl last weekend who is from australia and is trying to get soul survivor and just more prayer/loving jesus stuff happening generally down there..she was super cool and made clothes and badges to sell to make money to get it off the ground there and i wanted to buy everything. i just bought two green badges.
i promise you, that was the first time, walking away from chatting to her, that i've ever wanted to go ot australia. they are having their first soul survivor hopefully in jan 2006...i think i'd like to go.
imagine, faith is so young in that nation..real vibrant fiath is virtually foetal. we are so lucky to live here where so much has gone before, where so many have already made mistakes we can learn from, or have sowed into what we can now walk as our land or created things that have become established places for god to come and infiltrate and work through.
it strikes me that the problems i have with the theology of all that stuff, with finding stuff of good or bad in the land itself, and with carrying on, spiritually, with the baton that older generations have passed down to us....well this is my problem with it all
what do you do in a land where faith in jesus has no real family tree? we can hear preach after preach on wesley or howells or tolkein and lewis and we can watch 24/7 unravel over the last five years and can go to soul survivor as grumpy teenagers and hate it but go home having pulled and having learnt something new of god that he will use in us when we're 25 and willing to listen..
a breathing, living serving church is going to emerge in australia sometime..but it has nothing to emulate..no history to either shrug off or perpetuate. (and no, hillsongs doesn't count...!)

i'm hoping to hang out with her again this weekend.