Emerging Church is the catch word of the theological day. It's about faith communities rediscovering a new intent to survive when the mainline, established church fades away. It's about renewing the sacred within community through lifestyles that catch the culture of the time and discover God doing fine and dandy in amongst all the things the church traditional isn't. It's about using culture and the arts and questions and reality and politics to touch things holy in the world.
We're on the bandwagon too. We're beginning to explore this, or will be next week. It's an all-comers invitation to pull together stories of intent and dreams of faith, to use new words and invent new traditions, to break bread from a different standpoint: this time with the seekers and the people on the street who won't be at the table in any traditional sense and claim for them, the Good News that has passed by, or stood still in our traditions since we caged it in formality.
Emerging church isn't for everyone. Church enables us to seek God in different ways except too many now find the church doesn't help them seek the holy at all. God is set loose and on the streets and people are running to try and catch the spirit of life. That's where we find emerging church.
Monday 2nd and Wed 18th at 7pm we'll begin the journey that will take us across a whole year to explore, pilot, challenge, question, plan, invite, worship, break bread and then see where we find ourselves. We're not touching Sunday morning. This will sit alongside, inform, be informed by, dance with, fall out and make up with church as we've always known it but it is a work of mission and invitation to seek out ways and means and partners to explore faith and mystery, meaning and culture and what God could be among us and between us and those we haven't yet met.
We have a separate blog for this purpose which has just gone on line. there we can comment, question, wonder, talk as well as look up some resources that will inform us further and question us more.
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