Comments on: Ten years of Next-Wave http://charleswear.com/2009/01/19/ten-years-of-next-wave/ the publisher of Next-Wave Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:00:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jon Reid http://charleswear.com/2009/01/19/ten-years-of-next-wave/comment-page-1/#comment-457 Jon Reid Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:25:32 +0000 http://charleswear.com/?p=252#comment-457 Charlie, I share the same feelings about all those words. Oh, I'm told, it's time for a new word. And I suppose sometimes it is, because the old one has gone off in some direction I don't like. But sometimes it seems like the Church Word Fashion Show. I guess it just reveals the American church's fascination with words, ideas and how-tos (oh, and publishing books) over actually doing it. Let's keep doing it, whatever it's called! I remember prophesying at the Champaign Vineyard around 15 years ago about Generation X: I said that world says "X" means nothing, a generation that doesn't know what it stands for---but that God says "X" stands for the cross, and that this generation would be used to advance God's kingdom in new ways. Charlie, I share the same feelings about all those words. Oh, I’m told, it’s time for a new word. And I suppose sometimes it is, because the old one has gone off in some direction I don’t like. But sometimes it seems like the Church Word Fashion Show. I guess it just reveals the American church’s fascination with words, ideas and how-tos (oh, and publishing books) over actually doing it. Let’s keep doing it, whatever it’s called!

I remember prophesying at the Champaign Vineyard around 15 years ago about Generation X: I said that world says “X” means nothing, a generation that doesn’t know what it stands for—but that God says “X” stands for the cross, and that this generation would be used to advance God’s kingdom in new ways.

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