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Assuming the center, July 19, 2021.

Introduction.

There is a phrase that I've used and referred to for quite a number of years now,

and I believe that this would be a good time to return to an explanation of it again.

That phrase is Assuming the Center.

This is something which, if done, can only be done by faith.

It is a function of vision, and it is an exercise of authority.

It is an act of sanctified imagination.

When someone has authority already, and he exercises it,

he is not assuming a new authority.

He already has the authority, and so he wields it.

When someone assumes authority, but nothing happens,

he was getting out over the front of his keys.

He was assuming something, but it wasn't authority.

It wasn't the center.

Rather, it was just untethered wishing, an unsanctified imagination.

Sometimes, the one assuming the center is having to do this over against an existing center.

If that existing center is living and robust, the result is a clash or a collision.

If that center has been in the process of degrading, which is usually the case,

when someone else shows up to assume the center, the result is an apparent clash.

But it is not long before the old center gives way.

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