09 October 2009
going out...
I am off to a conference tomorrow called: Voices from the Margins - What can Baptists Learn from the Emergent Church
How interesting that ASBO Jesus should have this cartoon today:
I increasingly believe that the church needs to do a lot more going out - Cafe church in Costa, a church allotment, meetings in a pub and on a commuter train are some of the many ideas that I know some churches are trying. The Baptist Union calls them Crossing Places.
We need to be bold and step out for God.....we all just wish it wasn't so scary! But why do people find it scary? These are people just like us, they eat and sleep and laugh and cry and are loved by God just the same. Maybe its not them we are scared of but our fear is that when people ask about our faith we will be found empty - our experience of God and our relationship with God a bit of a relic of the past rather than a vibrtant current experience - is this what really holds us back?
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That sounds very interesting indeed, perhaps you could tell us a little about what you learned when you get back?
I'm certainly in favour of meeting outside the church building, but as much as I love ASBOJesus, it seems to me to have gone in a rather disspiriting anti-church direction recently.
Posted by: Mike Smith | 09 October 2009
Some of what had filtered through are in my next post..something of being on the margins instead of part of the Imperial state; of recovering/rediscoverng that small is beautiful both in terms of discipleship and outreach; that there is no grand plan today but each person and community working out what fits their situation at this time - very liberating! So much more.....we must chat sometime when I get back from holiday!
Posted by: revmusings | 12 October 2009
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