Tonight I'm off to Portland for a birthday party. I'm looking forward to it because my final project for this semester at Seminary is to create a proposal for a new Church Plant. I know that plenty of Christians have plenty of ideas about how a progressive church could or should look, but I wonder how many actually take the time to discuss possibilities with the unchurched. I remember reading that Rick Warren undertook such a "door-to-door" venture before his megachurch came to fruition.
Tonight I'll have the pleasure of spending time with Buddhists and homosexuals and socialists and atheists and all kinds of other interesting people! I'm looking forward to asking THEM what THEY would like to see in a church... even if they didn't personally attend! What kinds of virtues would they like to see touted, modeled and embodied by professed Christians? Under what circumstances or in what environments could they handle setting foot in a Christian church?
More to come!
3 comments:
How did it go? I'm interested.
Read the post above, about Cultural Refugees. Unfortunately, I didn't have the conversations I hoped for - but I did learn and experience something more eye-opening. Blessings,
Peter
There are Emergent church plants, like the one I attend (www.wickerparkgrace.net) where what you're wondering about is happening... I just wish it was happening in more places. I wish all cultural refugees had places to feel safe and experience community and the sacred, if they wanted to.
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