I have been working on an exercise to help people interact with the missional idea of reimaging mission/church within the Bible Tradition and Culture Triangle. I am seeking to develop a kind of scaled questioning to see how far people are willing to experiment with the different sides. Here is what I have so far, but not sure the bible and tradition questions are quite right. Any ideas?
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We did a venn diagram review last night at M and Ms with three circles around the aim of the project (Personal and Social and Spiritual development of young people). We listed 20 activities we had done with in StreetSpace over the last six months and asked the yp to put them into the venn diagram as they thought they connected.
With my its all one hat I was nervous about the differentiation of the three areas, but the exercise worked well, with several activities in the centre of the diagram to denote it was about all three. The best surprise of the night how many yp balanced the activity across the three areas. Not sure what this says about Gen Y and indifference to spirituality.
One of the activities i included in the list had been getting a new path put in to the skate park, which I simply described as “New Path” and a couple located this firmly in the Spiritual.
For over 5 years now I have been using the metaphor that church is both the city on the hill and the journey to the city on the hill, which connects the action and attitude aspects of the allegorical descriptions of church in the bible. I play around with the edges of this; like the city is lit by the ethic of christ, or we loose sight of the city from time to time but just see a distant glow. For me the metaphor is also rooted in the connecting of mission, worship and church into a more fluid whole entity.
The sense of openness that using a metaphor brings is liberating and disconcerting. However in the last couple of years i have heard more tweets, status updates and conversations connecting the action and attitude parts of worship, or church or mission. The most recent from Ben that “Worship is about telling the story and living it out”.
I think this type of approach is a step in the right direction but I wonder if there is something in thinking about the trinity as a metaphor for a reconnecting of worship, mission and church. That being caught up in God and embraced by the dynamic relationship is to be caught up in mission, worship and church. not sure yet…..
Dear Colleague,
An unprecedented 25 national organisations have come together to organise an indoor rally for the promotion of young people’s services on February 12th 12-4 in the Renewal Centre, Lode Lane, Solihull, B91 2JR. Support organisations include as you will see from the attached leaflet NCVYS, NYA, NUS, BYC, UKYouth Parliament, and many others.
Our campaign is called Choose Youth and we are seeking to arrest the decline of essential services to young people. Your support at this rally could make all the difference.
We will be celebrating good youth work, looking at the threats and challenges to it and discussing a way forward to support us all against cuts and closures.
We have had high press profile recently and feel sure that this rally will
achieve even more. But a good turnout would help.
I therefore write on behalf of the partnership to encourage you to circulate details of the rally and strongly encourage your members to attend and promote it.
Bookings for attendance can be made via the website www.chooseyouth.org where you will also find details of transport co-ordinators who will be able to offer support for group bookings.
I very much hope that you will help build for this rally, the largest in youth work’s history.
Your voice will make a difference.
All the very best.
Doug Nicholls,
On Behalf of Choose Youth.
(Kerry Jenkins)
Community and Youth Workers in Unite
National Section Operations Officer
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