A NEw Way of Being Church
Came across an interesting article today at http://www.simplechurch.co.uk/nwobc1.htm. It talks about the formation of a chouse church in Bath (UK). I've compiled all the pages into a single PDF at A New Way of Being Church - Alexander Campbell.pdfOne question that keeps coming to me is why do we always seem to have to have a physical place as the locus of 'church' - house church/ pub church / etc. Surely the glue of church is (or at least should be) relationships not location.
posted by Gordon Gray @ Monday, September 05, 2005
3 Comments:
You're right that we seem unable to get away from seeing church as somehow always geographical. I agree that we need to focus on relationships. One of the things that I've been musing on at my blogsite (a sideways glance) is how we define church and relationships have always been key. Other things matter - centred on Jesus, continuity with Christian doctrine, relationships with other Christian groups. Geography seems less important but people do need to know where a church gathers if it's to be open to those not currently members. You asked me about RSS feed to my site - if I knew how to set one up I would!
I'm afraid I'm not enough of a techie to answer your RSS Q - like you I use Blogger and the templates I've used recently all have RSS built in. Perhaps you can simply change template? Or look on the Blogger help pages. I wrote to tech support one time and got a good reply (altho it took a few days to come thru). It's worth chasing down.
Blessings
Hi Gordon...hope you're doing well. Yes church is more defined geographically, or even temporally....Sunday at 9:30am at {insert here} Street. And then church is over...but church is never really over. People need to start asking questions rather than accepting the traditions of time and come up with their own real definitions of what church really is. Otherwise in 20 years time the churches direction and composition will go unchallenged as the massess accept what is dished up to them.
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