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Project Diktuon – Draft 4

Now we are talking. After some constructive feedback, I think I’m finally getting a grasp of what I want to say on this page. I’ve recently been working on a pretty much complete overhaul of the text in these pages and tried to compile it in a single document format. This would be the introduction chapter.

Project Diktuon is an effort to strengthen the network of mature Christians wanting to build the Kingdom of God in Europe.

Diktuon is the Greek word for net. It is used e.g. in Matthews 13:47-48 (NIV):

Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore.

The fish in this parable stand for people. The net pulls the fish closer to to God and closer to each other. And this is what Project Diktuon is about:

Seek God’s people and bring them together.

Create a critical density of these people.

See what happens.

Critical density is different from the critical mass. It doesn’t have to be very much. It is having enough of high-quality material in a sufficiently small space. In this case it is having critically many critically high-quality Christians who are critically tightly connected to each other.

So Diktuon is essentially a social network of certain kind of people. While the network in itself is a totality, it can only be grasped from its knots, or nodes: the individual people. Thus, building the network is essentially building these relationships. Therefore Diktuon is about individual people being in contact with individual people, and Project Diktuon about strenghtening these existing relationships and building new ones.

I believe that when we earnestly seek God and His will and come together, He will let His creativity and power flow through us in countless ways. And I want to be advancing that. That’s what Project Diktuon is all about. And that’s why I created this site, Diktuon.net. Diktuon.net is an Internet platform to provide tools for unity, communication and co-operation for people, who are committed to build the Kingdom of God in Europe.

As I see it, three basic elements are needed for this. First, the people themselves. Second, the means for the people to communicate. Third, common values and policies to define who exactly should be involved and how to get along.

N.B. This site is at very early stages. Any kind of feedback is warmly welcome. Please use the blog.

People

Project Diktuon is about building unity and community of Christians. As Christians we are bound to Christ. And in Christ we are bound to one another. Yet we might not even know about each other. There may be people with similar issues on their hearts, who live fairly close by, but of whom we know nothing about. This is what Project Diktuon tries to address – strengthen our unity and improve our chances to meet one another in real life.

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.

What does a “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 here reflects your heart and mind, you likely are the kind of person I’m looking for, and you should expect to find similar people.

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

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.

You don’t live in Europe or are not interested in building the Kingdom of God in Europe.

You are not ready to face your fellow Christians as fellow human beings, but insist on sticking to some role on either side.

Your own denomination, nationality or race is so dear to you, that it prevents you from unity with other Christians.

You do not want to do the will of God or want to do something that is against His will.

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 members. Creating a denser network.