More System Building

A system is created after it is born. It originates as a byway, a path from constraint to freedom. As it frees, the number of the freed grows and becomes a community. Dwelling in its newfound freedom, the people comes to know that openness also means emptiness, that by leaving the oppression of a system they also lost their security. Boundless faith becomes too great a demand, for they are completely unprepared to practice such a radical emptiness. Longing to reclaim a sense of security, they come together and rebuild. So freed, they cannot return - instead they recreate. After all, it was not Christ who founded Christianity but Paul. While Christ preached the kingdom of heaven and eternal salvation, Paul offered a present security by building the church.