Teal is the official color of #LiveFully.  Besides for being a nice color, it’s very significant to the purpose of the #LiveFully project.  There is a lot of theology packed into it. Seriously.

As you know, teal is a blend of the colors blue and green (welcome back to Kindergarten).  Because it’s the color of the sky, blue often symbolizes the heavens.  Green, on the other hand, symbolizes the earth (no explanation necessary).  Put them together, you have teal – or symbolically, the unity of Heaven and Earth.

#LiveFully seeks to rediscover a Christian spirituality that integrates into all of physical life on the earth.  Just like Jesus prayed that God’s will be done “on earth as it is in heaven,” we believe that biblical Christianity is not about escaping the physical earth to go to spiritual heaven.

Instead, Christians are called to engage in God’s project of redemption on the earth today, as they eagerly await the second coming of Jesus and the New Heaven and New Earth, when God will make all things new (Revelation 21:1-7) . Continue Reading…

In starting #LiveFully and writing more, I have been confronted with fears, doubts, and anxieties along the way. My assumption is that many artists and creatives deal with similar emotions as they seek to create art. As silly as it sounds, just posting a blog online can bring a bit of self doubt, as you become vulnerable to the critique of others. Thoughts pop up like, “No one cares what you are trying to say” or “there are way more gifted people who can say this better”.

In these months of creating, I’ve felt kind of like a hamster on a wheel, spinning around the same 4 step cycle over and over again. The breakdown in the analogy is that the process is moving forward, unlike the wheels that stay stationary. Perhaps it’s more like being a hamster in one of those clear plastic balls. The cycles are constant, but there is productive, creative movement forward.

Here are 4 steps in this creative cycle:

1. Inspiration – whether it’s during a run, sitting on the toilet, or driving somewhere, the inspiration comes. All human beings have creative potential because all human beings are made in the likeness of the ultimate creative- God the Creator of all. Beyond that, all followers of Christ are empowered with the very Spirit of God, which reveals thoughts of God and inspires with ideas from God. (1 Cor. 2.10-12) Continue Reading…

The first half of the vision for #LiveFully is “to unite a global community that believes following Jesus is the most full life.”  Before anything else, we view Christians coming together in unity as first priority because Jesus himself held it in such priority. In his prayer to God the Father on behalf of future believers, Jesus said,

“I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity.” John 17:22

History has taught that the way to reach this unity is not by all Christians coming into perfect agreement over extensive doctrinal statements.  We are not all going to agree on what it means to be “baptized in the Holy Spirit” or whether or not God’s sovereignty means there is a “double predestination.” If we are waiting for this kind of unity then we are waiting for a moment that is not going to come, at least not in this present age. Continue Reading…