Spiritual Mapping

Spiritual mapping was a new term to me just last year. I have since come to understand it as research (historical, geographical, ancestral) for the purposes of understanding what God is doing in the context of a region a culture or a time. I bring this up now because I may come back and reference this and wanted us to be on the same page.

I have a number of friends who consider themselves to be mappers. Some people might consider this weird but it's not too different from that grandfather, grandmother or father in your family that seems to have a keen interest in the family tree. We have to remember though, that as Christians, our primary heritage is through the Kingdom of God. So it's applying these same natural tendencies to the more significant spiritual side of things. Turning natural tendencies into super-natural Godly tendencies, if you will. Just like with us, a natural body and a spiritual soul there are other things that exist in both realms or worlds (or whatever you call it) simultaneously. I guess I'm really talking about what we refer to as spiritual warfare. "For our weapons are not carnal", "the armor of God", etc.

This blog will likely delve into things such as the spiritual history of the Siloam Springs area, geographical and civic points of interest, the connections it shares with surrounding communities and statistical information such as the number of churches, population and ratios.

- Wade Baker