God wants to grow us UP:
to stretch you in your relationship with God…
God wants us to grow IN:
to stretch you in your relationships IN the church…
God wants us to grow OUT:
to stretch you in mission and engagement with the world he loves.
Month: September 2008
THE SQUARE – what to do in D2?
You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be
The Semi-Circle; Work from rest!
Rather than my life following the tick-tock unceasing rhythm of the clock, God wants my life to be in time with the pendulum that swings from being ON and OFF, because FATIGUE is one of the greatest barriers to prayer and spiritual growth & victory.
How to dig up treasure – the Circle
The reason Christians are fearful is that you read too many papers and not enough Bible.
The Threshold
I’m having a liminal moment. Liminality is linked to the idea of thresholds (the Latin word is related to doorsteps), it’s about passing through into somewhere, something new. It’s the place where transformation happens. The Scottish anthropologist Victor Turner had a lot to say about these ‘betixt and between’ times. Times when you wobble between being one thing and another. He looked at those ‘Rites of Passage’ whereby tribes would send boys off into the jungle to eat horrible food or fight a bear or something and come back a man. During the trial you were in the liminal phase. Not one thing ( a boy) – yet not the other yet (a man). I have such a rite to go through tomorrow – don’t worry, I don’t have to be circumcised or do anything life threatening – in fact I’m looking forward to it a great deal. I had to fill in a form earlier – it asked about occupation. Well…. I’m ordained in the C of E. But tomorrow I get commissioned to lead a non CofE church. […]