Going Bush

On Advent 2 Clay Nelson looks at the difficulties in being prepared in the world we live in and why even God goes bush. In the bush we enter a liminal place where transformation is the key to preparation. "On my Facebook page is a video that asks “Did you know that the top ten in-demand jobs for 2010 did not even exist in 2004?  We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist using technologies that haven’t been invented in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet. The amount of technical information is doubling every two years.  For students starting a four-year technical degree this means half of what they learn in the first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.” "In such a world what does it mean to prepare for anything? How can you prepare when the week’s newspapers you put out for recycling contains more information than a person living in the 18th century would come across in their entire lifetime?" Full text and video links at www.stmatthews.org.nz