The Black Box

CRASH

We are beginning the series on the mystery of the black box. We use the analogy of the black box of an airplane. when a plane wrecks, you go and search for he black box to find out what went wrong…. what happens if a society or movement crashes? is there a possibility of finding a “black box”? i think that the history of society has to be a history of movements. every time people get a good idea that they think can “change the world” they lead off a following and attempt to begin in a small way first. sometimes these movements are good things… sometimes not. when they crash, they often leave behind some written record… a black box so to speak. i think that the primary example of this is the bible. the first church crashed sometime in the second century and there were two things left behind…. one is a religion that really did (and still does not) resemble the origin in any foundational way. the second thing left behind.. is the black box, the bible, a record of what went wrong in the flight of the church. last week we talked about the marriage of church and state under Constantine in the 300’s. how did that one event forever corrupt the church and change the nature of the gospel…….