About Project Diktuon
Pulling the Fish Together
Who Should Be Involved?

So who exactly should be involved? I don’t care if you are great or small. All I’m interested in is your heart and mind. Actually, I expect that most of you are plain nobodies, just like I am. On the other hand, much of what I’m about the say will be rejected by many who rightfully consider themselves Christians. I bless them too. May God guide their paths to walk on His ways.

Mature Christians

I’m looking for mater Christians. What exactly does the term “mature Christian” mean? I’m not going to give a definition. At best I could try to describe, but even then I would probably miss it. Instead I have written some texts about beliefs and values I believe mature Christians would identify with. If you find that what I have said there reflects your heart and mind, you likely are the kind of person I’m looking for, and you should expect to find similar people. I shall elaborate this topic later.

Spiritual maturity is work of God in us. We don’t make ourselves grow, He does. What we can do, is to slow Him. I’ve heard that it takes at least 20 years to become a man of God, and the only thing one can do is to slow the process. When you walk that path, you will understand why. I have still a long way to go. Yet I assume that there is already some maturity in my life.

The four phases spiritual maturity can be described as follows.

  1. Me

  2. Me and Jesus

  3. Jesus and me

  4. Jesus

I’d say that around phase 3 we can start to talk about some sort of maturity.

Spiritual maturity is marked by fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. These are really characters of Christ, that are expressed in the life of a Christian, when Christ gets room in the life of that person. The person himself may be more of less ignorant about them. After all, they are fruit of the Spirit, not something he does himself. To that person they are just the normal way to behave. Making this kind of action most natural thing to do is exactly what the Spirit does.

Maturity is reflected both in words and in deeds. For the mouth speaks out of the overflow of heart – and if the heart is filled by Jesus, this is reflected in what the person says. And if the tongue spits out bitter words, obscenities, coarse jokes, bad talk about other people or lies, that too tells something about that persons heart. Likewise, sexual immorality, greed, envy and jealousy are signs of need for maturing in Christian life.

The mature Christian is obedient to Lord and does His will. On one hand it is natural for him, but on the other hand it means continual conscious choices to do the will and not be tempted into something else. While the immature Christian may be governed by the circumstances, for a mature Christian God is the circumstances. So, in a way, mature Christian is governed by the circumstances as well.

Mature Christian is one who knows his God. He is not tossed back and forth by the latest religious fashion or latest buzzwords in teaching, or impressed by mere great rhetoric. Instead he knows the truth himself and God’s love dwells in him. Mature Christian needs not to be taught about Christ, for he knows Him, and can learn to know Him better without instruction.

Maturity means taking responsibility of your own life, and then possibly of the lives of others. A part of this responsibility is refusing to act on ones own. Mature person wants to be a subject to a community of others. He is aware of his own deep imperfection, but accepts also his maturity. He does not think more or less of himself.

As maturity is relative, there are different stages of it, as described above. Between immaturity and maturity I’d say is also a kind of pre-maturity. People, who want to be mature, and see their deficiencies in that respect, but don’t quite consider themselves as mature yet. Sometimes this self-image is the only thing that sets them apart from people who could be characterized as mature. Sometimes there are more rough edges to be evened out. But as we all have those, the difference is a line drawn in water.

It is the will of God that all Christians would be mature. As I seek to build a community of mature Christians, I’m not only seeking those who are already mature. I also want to incorporate people who are somewhat pre-mature, in the hope of creating an environment where they can mature. For we all have way to grow, and we all can help each other on that path. I for one hope to find people, who can help me to grow.

Why not?

On the other hand, Project Diktuon is not for everyone. If you find you cannot accept or commit to some of the basic believes or values, then this probably isn’t for you. Here are some more specific indicators that Project Diktuon might not be for you:

  1. You don’t believe Jesus Christ has died and resurrected, you are baptised in Him, your sins are atoned in His death and you are living a new life in His resurrection.
  2. You don’t live in Europe or are not interested in building the Kingdom of God in Europe.
  3. You are not ready to face your fellow Christians as fellow human beings, but insist on sticking to some role on either side.
  4. Your own denomination, nationality or race is so dear to you, that it prevents you from unity with other Christians.
  5. You do not want to do the will of God or want to do something that is against His will.
  6. You want to argue or have the last word.

While the values of authenticity, unity and obedience are something Project Diktuon tries to cultivate in its participants and I don’t think anyone is perfect in every aspect of them, they nevertheless are something that should define the network to begin with. We should not start from the scratch in any of the issues above.

Finally, I don’t expect to know many of you. In fact, initially very few of you. I expect that you know some each other. And that you know some like-hearted and -minded people from outside the community. And that you will bring them in to the community. And you will create new connections with other users. Creating a denser network.

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