"The One Minute Christian is a short book which explains exactly what is involved in moving from a dying local church structure to a vibrant and intentional local community that embodies both the simplicity and the transforming power of the way of living that Jesus preached and embodied.
Begin by creating a symbol -- your own version. Draw a circle. Draw a cross within it, but extending out somewhat. Below this symbol draw the number:01.
The circle is the world, a very small circle in a circle we can't fathom which we call the universe. The cross is the sign of God's utter love for the whole inhabited earth and every creature above, upon and within it."
I wrote this in the late 1980s when I lived in Boston. We were going to implement its ideas when my close friend and co-worker was stricken and eventually died. Instead of doing this, I spent days wandering the corridors of Brigham and Women's with my friend until he could walk no more. The ideas here are suggestive not prescriptive. Check it out. The whole thing is a single post.
