Ghetto detox

I had an Indian (no Native American this time) friend visiting me on Saturday. Yes, the food this friend cooked was excellent and my apartment still has a distinct smell of incense... It's funny how I feel God connecting me with different people from different cultures these days. I take it as a very welcome challenge to confront different perspectives on life, I somehow believe that it doesn't threaten my own values as much as staying in a Christian or Western ghetto would in the long run. And it's also good to challenge my thinking by the fact that in many ways nowadays India is more Jesus-following than Finland is.

Another friend, Gaz, introduced me to interesting analogy while writing about faith in postmodernism. He used a picture of recovering of an addiction. Our taking distance from organised ghetto church structures may help us detox from unbiblical and expired ways of living out our faith and save the next generation from that process. But the real question is if we actually succeed in the rehabilitation process, if we actually learn to develop countercultural Jesus-following life style that's sincere and relevant to this world.