I was discussing how missiology shold come from our christology and then give shape for our eccelesiology. We were discussing church on the edge and how do we maintain the mission dna in what we do and what arises. The conversation moved on to some of the initial conversations about part of the reason for establishing church on the edge was due to questions about the emerging churches approach to mission (or lack of it) and that missiological approaches to youth had a lot to learn about church from the EC and likewise EC about mission. (I am aware of the generalisations used in the last sentance). Anyway we wondered if, for many in the EC, the primary revelation/ focus on God was around creativity through the Trinity hence the lack of missionary impetus.Great Expectations movie full
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I wonder if churches spend too much time pondering about how to worship (which is what I think you imply by “the primary revelation/ focus on God was around creativity through the Trinity”). Perhaps if we spent our time thinking about how to do mission and doing it then they would be worshipping without having to figure out how to worship?
Good reflection Richard. We are at a cross over point at present- exploring in a number of contexts what is (emerging) church amongst a group of non churched young people. Throughout our missiology has been incarnationally (Christology) centered and now from this we are exploring what it means to imbibe into a group of “anti social” young people a serving, relating and hence social community”
tough though isn’t it!
yep Richard hard going, but a great journey. Not sure if jonny mentioned but we hope to call together people in April 08 doing this sort of stuff around the church on the edge project, hope you can be involved