Tuesday, April 10, 2007
The Church has left the building
The Age newspaper calls it "Refugees in faith" which seems rather appropriate for those of us who have left the building to experiment with new possibilities in expressing and living out the gospel.
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Considering you affinity for refugees... :)
having done a Word on the Street walk with Urban Seed [Cafe Credo], and experienced Cheryl Lawrie's easter installation in Melbourne, I read this article with interest in the weekend papers
is it just me, or do these two comments from the article just reek of arrogance?
"At the 2004 Anglican general assembly, Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen spoke about reaching niche groups reluctant to go to church. "There's a group of lawyers who meet every Tuesday evening in a Sydney cafe for Bible study," he said. "They don't know they're Anglicans yet — we'll tell them when the time comes."
Like - hello - does it matter if they're Anglicans? Isn't it just great that they're meeting and studying? Why does everyone have to "own" people and take great joy in parading their "success stories".
and how about this . . . "Researcher Ruth Powell says . . . "We are finding other ways of gathering and exploring faith together, and they must be given permission for that. They must be given freedom to fail, to say 'that didn't work'."
great - let's give "them" freedom to fail - cos after all, what "we're" doing is so obviously successful!?!?!?
rant over . . .
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