Spaces

It seems like this has become the summer of networking. The web of people who care about the kingdom and simple/organic/missional church is slowly spreading down here. I'm really starting to see the enormous blessing the past four years have been. We as a faith community have had the chance to work through many questions and issues that are critical to this journey. People in traditional churches often don't have the forum to do this without seriously jeopardizing their relationship to others in their setting.

For this reason, I'd love to continue facilitating "spaces" for people to do this. Whether it be actual faith communities we start, or just me saying I'm going to be at such-and-such coffee shop every Tuesday at 7PM and whoever wants to come and talk about the kingdom or missional church can show up (which I might actually be doing soon). I think this is one of the most important challenges we face right now - helping people to slow down enough and getting them into an environment where they can process what in the heck God is doing. In my opinion, if a gathering we organize makes people more busy and doesn't provide for two-way communication (i.e. not primarily lecture) then it is not worth organizing.