This is an intriguing video that only reveals about fleas what we already know about humanity - that over time we find ourselves accustomed to the limits that have been set around us, and are rarely if ever able to break free from our own prisons.

In many ways, this video, as well as a similarly symbolic movie, the Matrix, is an allegory of the human condition - that we are slaves to our own “Matrix” or “flea jar” and we will never escape, even if all restrictions are taken away. Much like the Matrix’s character Cypher, we would rather return to the Matrix power grid and live an illusion than live in a world without controls or limits.

What is really possible for followers of Christ who are not restrained by limitations the Evil One has placed on them? What might new believers, who have never been caught up in the trappings of a system that is designed to suppress them, be free to do or become?!?

It is these sorts of questions that reminds me that the organic church movement must remain out among the lost and the “unchurched”, rather than just sheep-transfer. Otherwise our homes will simply become a new place for us to erect our steeples. The “Matrix” will have found a new way to suppress the freedom of humanity.

I recently read a story (I’ll post it here if I ever find a link for it!) about a woman named Jinger. She was walking down a road in Boise, and a woman named Patty, who had felt prompted by God to stop, picked her up and drove her into town. Patty told Jinger about the love of Jesus Christ at a Bible Study she was headed to. Jinger accepted Christ that evening.

Later in the conversation at that Bible Study, they all began talking about starting simple churches. Jinger was facinated and asked a lot of questions. “Do we need a clergy for this? (no) Could she do this? (yes!) Would it be alright to start with her non-Christian family? (of course!). The next evening she had done just that. There was no formal training - only unbridled freedom to be the transformed light of Christ that she was created to be! Does she still have a lot to learn? Sure! But think about it; she didn’t think. She just took the joy and freedom she had and applied it to the best of her ability. She went from new Christian to church planter in just 36 hours.

And there are thousands more Jingers in this country already doing the same thing…but there are millions more who just keep getting passed on the highway - maybe because too many of us are stuck in our jars.

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