Waking Up To God's Kingdom - Part 2

I feel inspired to write a few thoughts after listening to Rob Bell's message "Beware of the Dogs." (You can listen to this at the Mars Hill website.) At one point in his message he spoke of some psychological terminology - namely: egocentric, ethno- or tribalcentric and worldcentric worldviews. Essentially, they mean that our perspectives are either "me centered," "us centered," or "world inclusive" respectively (at least this is how I understood them). So as children grow up, hopefully, they move through this progression till they arive at a worldcentric perspctive.

The informing and convicting teaching that I just recieved is this: While I am trying to establish for Adrian a solid egocentric base of trust to start his life from, and as I begin to challenge his being to step into a more tribalcentric worldview (namely..."Why can't you throw your yogurt into my face?!! ... Because I said so!"), I am also challenged as a member of Christ's-worldwide-and-centuries-long-body, to move myself out of the comfort of a tribalcentric (or American-suburban-postmodern-Christianity) worldview and into the risky waters of a worldcentric faith. So it seems that both Adrian and I have some waking up to do. I imagine that when we open our eyes we might find there is a whole world around us that we can find beauty in.