CHAPTER TWO Until I Entered: Reality, Rupture, & Renewed Vision

CHAPTER TWO is an invitation to draw aside from the noise, to take time to pause, listen, consider, and contemplate, to draw near to our Maker. We’re seeking to create a sacred moment; a space for deep reflection, prayer, worship, and communion with the triune God. It will be a place for eating and laughing and crying and telling stories, a context in and through which the Living God might encounter us in radical and life-giving ways.

Like the psalmist of old, we live amidst competing narratives, with truth-claims that vie for our attention, assailing us from all angles. The cultural fog is thick, and it is hard to find firm footing on the narrow path, a constant challenge to gain an accurate perspective on reality. Though summonsed to live faithful lives, our surroundings cause us to question the with-God life. We know the agony of the psalmist as he tries to make sense of a world full of injustice and greed (Ps.73:16). CHAPTER TWO is a response to these confusing, wearying times, one that will see a bunch of us gathering in a seriously beautiful piece of Aotearoa, to come before the Lord and see what will happen as we turn our eyes to him and lift up his name.

We’re working hard to curate a unique and inspiring twenty-four hour event that will involve installation artists and poets, bakers and baristas, singer-songwriters, musicians and worshippers, silence, solitude, and beauty. All of this, to create a context where you can engage with Jesus in a self-directed way. Don’t think of it as a highly programmed event. Think of it more as a journey on which you are invited to embark. Our hope and prayer are that as you ‘enter in’ you will begin to see clearly.

Come, turn the page and see what might happen next.