the Glocal Trekker Blog

I'm proud to be celtic. The anglo-saxons didn't conquer us unlike others on the British Isles! The Romans didn't know what to do with us. Erwin McManus has written a book called the "Barbarian Way" in which writes about how we fought painted blue and white and naked. But that's only part of the story - what made us so inconquerable was that when we fought our wives and children fought beside us. No one else did that. Most movies showed the women and children running and the men fighting when invaders would come. That's not how the celts did it - their wives and children fought beside them. Do you have any idea how much harder that made the men fight? They would fight to the death knowing if they died their wife would and then their children. When a man started looking for a woman, he didn't look for some petite little dainty, cute, skinny, pretty thang like a Paris Hilton - no, he wanted a honkin, tough, meat-on-the-bone, sword-weilding kind of mama - like a Queen Latifa! Something about seeing her painted blue and white running naked with a sword - I think I'd get out of her way! What about you?

Now for the spiritual application of this metaphor and mental image - missional families serve together. They are the building block of "spiritual communities" - so whatever you do, don't separate ministry from the family - it should be done as family.