Note: Church

The traditional "Notes" of the church are generally seen as:

Faith: Acts 2:44
Fellowship: Rm 12:1-5
Unity: Act 15:6 Eph 4:3,13
Consecration: 1 Pet 2:9
Power: Matt 18:19 Act 15:4

We had a crack at this the other night and came up with something - dare we say it - a little more alive:

Shared relationships: A network of close relationships that boths supports and challenges its members.
Share experience of faith: Each member has a decsive experience of God which gives the group a shared foundation.
Shared understanding of faith: Commone core convictions that are focused enough to enable people to move forward together and which allow and value a healthy breadth of views.
Shared Mission: Not just a conviction that mission is critical but a definable shape of local mission that the group can participate in together.
Shared resources: A commitment to share the resources that the group has to facilitate its life and mission.

Christian Community at the Margins

If a Christian Community is to be authentically part of its locality, its core values must be responsive to the local context. At the same time they should focus on major universal values and resonate with core Christian values so they are not lost or stuck in the context. The attempt below was based on these premises. On reflection this group looks pretty unversal.

Inclusive: welcoming rich, poor, straight, gay
Journeying: seeking to understand God and ourselves
Centred on the Margins: sensing that in the quirky and in the forgotten, God's truth is more apparent
Founded on Jesus: Confident that he journeys with us and knows the end of the journey.

Hey Ho Let's Go

This is just a space for me to toss ideas around. Happy to have you toss them around too.

Col