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A friend recently sent me a link to the following video which explores the dynamics of our current food distribution system around the world. Ultimately, the short film demonstrates how the global food market is severely dysfunctional and unjust. Frankly, I found the critique of the system far more compelling than the short commentary on “solutions”, which lacked teeth. However, that isn’t the primary reason I wanted to share it. Before I get ahead of myself, take the 9 mins to watch it here:
What this video does well is to express in simple terms the reality of our inter-connected world. The choices we make locally- even the seemingly small and “personal” choices- have far reaching and often devastating impact on others. Individualism and the loss of historicity in our worldview has resulted in millions of people completely blind to these realities. Most of these very people are those who hold more financial, political, social, etc. freedom than most people have throughout the entirety of human history. Thus, this blindness is devastating.
This is one of the factors that has robbed the Church from its missional identity. For too many, faith has been reduced to a personal piety, so rooted in the immediate that neither its origins nor its future direction play significant parts in shaping it. As I expressed in my last post, “Missional: Becoming & Living Christ Together”, being missional inextricably ties us to the incarnation, to Jesus. In so doing, we are also inextricably tied together with each other, one Body. While most of us only engage with the local expressions of that community, the ultimately reality of that unity extends back into history, forward to the future and around the globe in every context.
What do you think? Do you see this lack of a global perspective impacting your ability to be missional? Have you seen ways in which this trend has been changed?
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