Where Is It??

“Where is it? If a new thing is happening, why can’t we see it? If these new models or wineskins of church are so great, why aren’t they strong and visible now?” A friend involved in leadership of a ‘normal’ church regularly throws these questions at me. Other leaders raise the same issue in the form of a statement “when you have a church of a thousand people and are seeing hundreds saved every year, then you can critique current church structures.”

For myself, and other proponents of alternative ways of extending God’s kingdom, including house churches, organic churches, and truly missional churches, these questions are often raised by defenders of the status quo - by leaders within structured churches, as they look outside the domain of organised Christianity at the alternative forms of ‘church’ being discussed and attempted. “If what you’re proposing is so great, where is it? Why can’t we see it? Why isn’t it growing rapidly?”
These appear to be good questions, at least from the perspective of those who ask them.......


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First blog post

For the last 20 months, I've been writing some articles, & stealing others, & emailing them out to interested people. The response has been great, and many people appreciate the articles.

At times, people respond to the articles with questions, or comments. I teply to them, & hence some email interaction occurs. Much of this is invisible - yet might be of interest to other people.
Hence .... a blog to contain some of those pearls of wisdom, heresy or questions.

Also - the comment has been made that I have a 'captive audience' with the 'ideas from the edge' emails ... so when people critique them, they can't pass those critiques on to this 'captive audience'. hence, a blog might enable some of those critiques (& other intereactions) to be visible.

So ... if it works ... this might be the start of a blog ...