paul soup here. i'm literally typing with one hand (baby emma's on my lap while amy's running some pre-trip errands), so there may be a high rate of typos this time around.
i thought we had a great group meeting yesterday. we had a lot of
folks show up at Viva! Books' upper room to kick off the new "Track" on
Missional Ecclesiology. Our texts are: Guder's Misisonal Church and Rutba House's School(s) for Conversion, both available at Viva.
as a group we read through "twelve marks of new monasticism" as a way of introducing the topic. you can find them online at newmonasticism.org. we'd encourage you to come join us whether you're interested in getting the text or not. i personally prefer "twelve marks" without the definite article, because i'm worried about seeming too prescriptive. having said that, i feel these are live-giving, and transformative, and will (possibly radically) affect our group in long-lasting ways -- parentheses are tough to type with one hand.
we want you to come in 2 weeks! having a "generative conversation-among-friends" is the main point, and the books will be used to bolster the conversation...
Gordon joined our group with a great perspective; we look forward to hearing his story more. his real live preacher blog may already be familiar to you. I got to meet and talk with Misty at lunch yesterday (she and her husband, Emergent/SA regular Travis, are both heavily involved in what I'd call kingdom-work -- she is a social worker on the southside, handling cases and at-school programs, he is currently a youth minister in a lutheran church out in hondo. i had a great lunch with travis last week. Rudy and Casey were there, as were Cliff and Pam and Mark; rachel was working downstairs in the bookstore.
we meet again in 2 weeks.
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