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

Labels: books, ChOG practice, ChOG theology, migration, shifting

Here is an interesting find by Lloyd Moritz over at ChOGBlog. It talks about Charles Shultz's roots in the Church of God. This post brings up an interesting question. In an EPIC world {Experiential, Participatory, Image rich, and Connective}[Len Sweat], are we as ChOGers ill-equipt to relate to the world around us? How creative and artisitc is your congregation? We've got a few people. Our building isn't, it looks like every other Indiana Limestone church built in the 50s. Except we've added on since then, something that most of those vintage churches have not done.

What's your church's creative score? 1 to 10: 1 being stick figure, 10 being Di Vinci

Is there a difference between your church and your specific area of ministry? Why is that? What would that score be?

Labels: art, ChOG practice, ChOG theology, creativity