Comments on: Emerging To

By: Paul Gardner

Paul Gardner — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:16:25 +0000

Thanks for that Mark.

I think the conversation needs to at least start before the action can but both need to be ongoing!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:39:49 +0000

The trap for me is that we have so much baggage around the word church, what it should be, what it could be, and what it actually is. While not right, the majority would believe in church as a place.

The challenge (for me personally) is working out my salvation in everyday life. The current church style isn't able to work with this as it remains predominantly a place. It remains something that I do at a specific time and place that isn't connected to the rest of my life. Tony Campolo has a great podcast (http://feeds.feedburner.com/TonyCampoloPodcast) about mega-churches that touches on some of the issues that 'the church' faces as we try to emerge into the relevant transforming lifestyle that Jesus demonstrated.

The conversation is important, but the action is critical.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:16:50 +0000

look forward to seeing where you go with this Paul. Blessings on your “emerging to” work in Johnsonville

steve

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:11:45 +0000

Thanks for that Dave. I’m currently reading Steve Taylor’s book “The Out of Bounds Church” (as well as “Holiness Unwrapped” by Robert Street), both of which I intend to review on this blog later.
God bless
Paul

By: dave

dave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:05:54 +0000

Hey this is good stuff, good to see this stuff from a Salvation Army leader in NZ. I look forward to the other posts. If you want some books on the emerging church and associated matters I`ll lend you some. Just ask
dave´s last blog ..