Orthodoxy to be vulnerable

I really like what Ben Myers says here about the vulnerability of orthodoxy to failure and the connection to its ability to grow by renouncing its capacity to give a final authoritative vision.

The problem with my liking this is -- do I like it because it resonates with my general way of thinking or because that is what we learn from the gospel? The gospel did call outcasts to repent and be a part of the Kingdom. This was something that the orthodoxy at the time could not comprehend. It was a scandal.  Just one amongst many shocking things that Jesus advocated. A brief extract from his extract.

“This rejection of the idolatrous notion of a ‘successful’ church, this willingness to fail, is at the same time a profoundly apocalyptic gesture: the church’s identity is not immanent within its own practices and institutions; its identity is that which exceeds it, that which comes to it as gift, that which fills its own emptiness and abasement. "