i'm exploring again. i just picked up 'emerging churches' by eddie gibbs and ryan bolger. i haven't yet finished 'shaping of things to come" by Alan Hirsch and michael frost. i am well aware that postmodernity is a massive cultural shift ans that modern churches are not responding to the shift in ways that actually cross cultures with the hope message of the gospel. i am well aware that the last generation to be satisfied with modern institutional church are the baby boomers. i am sensitive to the spiritual needs of people udner the age of forty who seek a connection to an authentic, Jesus-centered, kingdom-building, missional community of friends. i am one of them. maybe part of the struggle is that i am not exactly a part of a friendship circle that embraces the cross cultural missional stance of church in postmodernity. i have found some guys in lancaster. and we talk monthly. it seems to be yielding some fruit.
i'm wondering how to get connected with the non-church community. is there some project or place i should be connecting with here? i spent an hour at barnes and noble sort of watching people and browsing books. where is community-making happening here? what i need to offer is some kind of a book club or something. or find my own. what might the library have to offer?
why am i wondering these things? why can;t i be satisfied doing what i'm doing. what am i doing? i guess that's just it. i'm not sure what to do with myself. i should be meeting with people and asking them questions about thier spiritual lives, their journeys, their hopes and needs. i guess i could do that.
what if i identified a few people with whom i could do that...and just did it. in whatever venue they saw fit. i think i'll do that now.
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