Ross Byrd joined King Laugh and me this week to discuss preparation for the gospel. Ross commented a couple of months ago on one of my essays that Jesus did not spend his ministry planting the seed; he spent it tilling the soil: “The truth (the seed) is simple and plenty. The problem is the lack of fertile soil. Jesus came to till the soil, to play the long game-not just to give us the truth, but to make sure the truth could go in.”
Our discussion highlighted the importance of patience and incremental growth in understanding and accepting the truth. We also touched on the limitations of light switch-like conversions and the need for a gradual journey of becoming. We are embodied and in time; we can’t have an angelic, aeviternal view of conversion.
In the second half of the conversation, Ross brought an Episcopalian challenge to mine and King Laugh’s ecclesiology. We discuss and debate the Donatist controversy, the sacred-secular divide, and whether episcopal church government might solve some things. Finally, we closed on what it means to be a “grandfather” and achieving a second naiveté, the journey from wonder to work and back to wonder again.
Ross Byrd runs Surf Hatteras, a premier summer surfing camp for teens, and teaches theology for the Virginia Beach Fellows. He writes Patient Kingdom here on Substack; go give him a subscribe! He stepped back from being an associate pastor seven years ago to devote himself to these other callings full-time. He lives with his wife and four children in North Carolina.
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