God Burns Time

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Relationship with God: Dial Up or Broadband

Great metaphor inspired by this talk from Grace Project.

How do you see your relationship with God? Is it a dial-up connection or a broadband one?

Installation
Dial Up: You had to do it, you have to dial up each time you want to connect.
Broadband: Simply open your door to the Someone who comes to connect you, and once you're up, you are up.

Dial-Up: Old Covenant
Broadband: New Covenant

Dial-Up: Slow, low bandwidth, limited media access
Broadband: Fast, high bandwidth, all media accessible

Dial-Up: mostly waiting (waiting for fulfillment)
Broadband: mostly finished (It is finished)

Dial-Up: limited communication ability (shadow)
Broadband: CD-quality audio and video (the reality, the fullness)

Dial-Up: a praise song, a faster song, need to download
Broadband: streaming music (unceasing prayer)

Dial-Up: quid pro quo, upload and download at same bandwidth
Broadband: download far exceeds upload limits (grace overflows)

Dial-Up: read the article of the game-winning catch (letter)
Broadband: download a video of the game-winning catch (spirit)

Dial-Up: clunky
Broadband: seamless