Here is a good post by Ben Edson on communitas. I just started Exiles by Frost, so I haven't gotten to the part that Ben is talking about. Ben's last paragraph really resonates with me.

"This is where i think that my vocation is, to be a point of dialect with the communitas and normal society, between the emerging church and the church catholic. I think that this is a step on from some of the early emerging churches, who were not interested in dialect, but only communitas. This is not a a value judgement as we would not be able to have the current dialect without the earlier experiences of liminality."

I sit back and wait for good times to create a new ChOG dialect. It's hard to learn a new language, much less create a new one.

(Anyone want to right a book with me? I got one brewin.' )


ht: jonnybaker

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