An open comment to Sean about Tertium Quid...

To understand this blog go to Sean Oldroyd's blog, "everything that increases me" first and read TERTIUM QUID


Tertium quid is the way of life, Sean. It leaves the two dimensional world of liberal/conservative, traditional/contemporary, black/white... etc. It is as if you drew a straight line on a piece of paper five inches long and on one end you mark a number one and on the other end you marked a number two and the tertium quid would be if you marked the number three on your shirt. It leaves the field. We keep thinking we need to stay on the piece of paper in order to have peace but the marks that use to be so far apart have melted into each other. They both have lost the reality of the spirit and is now doing everything it can to keep people within the line thus retaining power and influence. When influence is lost, power begins by intimidation not love.

I believe we are again at the place where many people are no longer listening to the loud speaker that is yelling, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, pay no attention..." and are beginning to draw back the curtain to see a bigger reality. It just doesn't make sense anymore. For me, I was afraid of being liberal when I quit thinking conservative. That is not the opposite, the opposite is tertium thinking. Thinking in truth instead of dogma. I had a conversation with a camp guy a few years back and he was saying it is easier to teach doctrine to the youth because truth is subjective. Again on the left/right plane.

The idea is not to come up with a new idea to be of tertium quid, but to seek what is it that God is doing and do that. I believe most of it is in LOVE. God acts off the paper most of the time and His greatest was what we are celebrating now... the birth of a redeemer that was born in a donkey stable instead of the Warrior plotting out the overthrow of the occupying forces. His life is what we should be living, it will not be centered around style, candles, and pews but it will be in hearts, homes, offices, coffeehouses, Italian restaurants, and other such places of worship by cooks, campers, accountants, and barristas.

"For unto us a child is born..."