revmusings

I love it when the same idea comes at you from many different sources and  begin to hear God.....

None of them are new or innovotive but I really want to explore them as I begin a new ministry.

In no particular order...

• Hospitality and meals - Jesus did it a lot and so should we inside and outside the church
• Authentic relationships - really care so we don't respond or expect 'fine' as the response to 'how are you' at all times but actually engage with one another in all of life's journey
• Have as many non-Christian friends as we have Christian and spend more of our time outside the church
• Disciples- grow and mature us everywhere we go others can see Christ in us and all we say and do and are
• Confidence in our ability to hear God through scripture - so everyday with Jesus not Selwyn or whoever
• Prayer and worship that reflects (as the psalms do) all aspects of life - joy and sorrow, life and death, confidence and fear, trust and doubt
• Openess to and care of the stranger and alien - remembering our life on the margins as the people of God and fighting for others to have freedom as well.
• Difference is enriching not threatening - within the church as well as outside of it.

I know there are more thoughts milling round my mind - the queston now is how....