revmusings

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?

Popped into town to pay a cheque into the bank and found a European Food Market - excellent to wander round, smell lots of different aromas. It was like being in France or Spain though I am not sure Peru and Asia is in Europe but both were represented.

At one end were some street performers playing South American panpipes just to add the the atmosphere.

This reminded me of a blog I read this morning -  Geoff Colmer has asked what music moves you? (the hymn- I cannot tell - always makes me cry)

This panpipe music always moves me - it makes me smile for it is the music of the land of my birth but it also makes me cry as I have no memories of my country as I was only a baby when I came to UK. So how is it that this music moves me so much and stirs such a strong longing to go back - can infant memories of such music really stay in the sub-conscious and have such a deep effect?

One day I hope to return.....

A complaint to ASDA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H8HnaTIcmk