I've was away on holiday last week and then speaking at the BBH conference this week, so apologies that i've been rather quiet on the blogging front.
The BBH conference was good, I spoke on Santus1, emerging missiology and the MBS fair - all seemed to go well. Roy Searle from the Northumbria Community was also there and made a couple of throw away comments that really stimulated my thinking. Firstly, we need to get away from the thinking of being purpose-driven, Christ was not purpose-driven but purpose-led. We are driven too much in our life's and hence we suffer from burnout etc. and fail to have time just to be...
Secondly, Roy said 'he used to call people dropping out of churches 'backsliders', he now identifies them as a movement of God...
Met a few interesting people and heard about something called 'space' down near Eastbourne, a group who seem to be doing some really creative things in their early stages of life...
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