Matt Glover wants to critique the emerging church… he says, “What I’m after is a series of sites that try to define or critique the emerging church movement from, preferably, people within the movement itself. There’s plenty of people willing to bag it from the outside, but I want some serious, honest reflection from some on the inside…” He’s inviting participation. Interesting — this critque should be a little different.
Another EC-Critique Looms
by Brother Maynard | Jan 16, 2006 | Emerging Church | 1 comment
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Just to clarify why I’m doing this…
I’m part of a 45+ year old Baptist church that has always had mission at it’s heart. All through it’s life though, it’s teetered on the edge of falling into a stale, institutionalised version of a faith community. Fortunately there’s been some voices come along every so often to shake things up and get us back on track.
Anyway, three years ago, we sold every bit of property we had. After surveying the wider community, we set about establishing a new facility as a gift to the community. A gathering place and resource centre for all walks of life. “The Factory” as it is called, is not our church. It is part of the mission of our church, but the church just happens to use it as well.
As part of being a resource centre, we have looked at ways that we can birth and nurture differnt expressions of church/faith/community/missional community/whatever in addition to the more traditional variety of Church. It’s still early days, but we have groups that meet in the local bistro, MacDonalds, as part of a playgroup, on skateboards and a few others in the dream stage.
As a leaderhsip, we’re now trying to share the vision more broadly, but want to do so in a way that talks about the real,honest experience of what it is like to be part of a misisonal community. What’s really good? What’s really bad? What were you glad to leave behind? What do you miss? What needs to be worked on? And so on.
I want the reality here. Not just the dream.
I hope that makes a little sense!
Matt