JCD’s on a Geneva Journey: Rumination #2

Today, along with over forty other persons from “around the globe” I got to share in an ecumenical experience, great!  Now both I and you already know what the word experience can mean, so what’s ecumenical about?

Is it a posh term, theological jargon, or one of those words I’m at times accused of “making up”? Well, no, no, and no.

• It’s the term is most widely connected with religious unity, specifically Christianity experiencing her inherent unity. The original Greek root word, oikos, means “house,” and that grew into the word oikoumenikós, which means “the entire world.” Today it most often refers to bringing people of diverse Christian groups or “communions” together.

Ecumenism at heart is not the mere idea of unity inherent in the Christian faith. It is the intentional pursuit and experience of that unity; experienced, not for its own sake, but for “God’s sake”.  At its’ heart ecumenical experience is being the people of God together, doing the work of God for the purposes of God, by acting in the ways of God, as we progress in the mission of God in the earth.

The mission of God catching our souls and calling us to heart and action is a journey of peace and justice; being globally involved in God’s mission.

Today we were thinking and feeling, yes; but how?

Peace and justice as journey in the earth . . . that’s a big one, eh?

But then, how big is God?

Well, that was my day, that’s what I’ve been up to . . . what your day been about?