Dare to make a mistake

"revelation is hiding behind heresy" -These words are what stand out, resonante and continue to echo in my mind from our time tonite w/ an awesome guest speaker Kris Vallotton. 

I am challenged to make a mistake; to think beyond the confines of the current existing precepts that have been established  by those who have so designated themselves to define, outline and dare I say control who I am to be simply because I carry the title "Christian."  I am challenged to live beyond a set of rules and restrictive suggestions and actually be unconditional love (the power to do so stems only from knowing this firsthand).  I want to begin to think and further, speak, past my fear of being wrong, even contradictive to the Word.  Afterall, if my heart is to honor, how can I dishonor? May i be mistakened for doing so? Absolutely, but yet I am newly willing to take that risk.  I am challenged to read the Word outside of the context that my brain has been well trained and framed to read it within. I have been challenged to seek after a God who has laid out for me (us!) limitless access to amazing treasures that lie waiting, dusty and longing, just short of crying out to be found.  Perhaps all because generation after generation have not dared to look there, not brave enough to learn beyond what has already been taught. And when one does....we throw stones and title it heresy.   

I am challenged to be a leader to a culture of embracing mistakes. Dare I say encourage them? Because mistakes are indicative of risk taking.  If those speaking heresy were gauged by the motivation of their heart rather than for the face value measure of their words, could we already be closer to that awaiting truth and hidden treasure?  Could it be that even wrong words broaching an "unquestionable" theology are merely a precedent to new truths, when given the freedom to search on?  If given direction rather than rejection, could one sooner attain revelation that would be freeing for us all? Could it be that if we begin to open our minds to the possibility that we have held wrong or distorted beliefs all along, we would both begin to search out the truth for ourselves and embrace others doing the same.  Mistake-making is inevitable, but yet exciting!...because it means we are on the move...and revelation is in the making.