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BlogHere are the thoughts and news of the people in our community. Leave a comment as you wish. If you want to join the blogging ask Mark.
Monday, June 21, 2004
 Vacuum Cleaner Churches
This quote is being quoted in a number of places. It was made by Alan Roxborough back in 1993. A quote before it's time I shouldn't wonder. It so reflects my desire of missional church - rooted in communities, engaged with the world around, incarnational mission, transformational at its heart. Love it! "...We need a movement of God's people into neighborhoods, to live out and be the new future of Christ. It must be a movement that demonstrates how the people of God have a vision and the power to transform our world. This is not the same as current attempts to grow bigger and bigger churches that act like vacuum cleaners, sucking people out of their neighborhoods into a sort of Christian supermarket. Our culture does not need any more churches run like corporations; it needs local communities empowered by the gospel vision of a transforming Christ who addresses the needs of the context and changes the polis into a place of hope and wholeness. The corporation churches we are cloning across the land cannot birth this transformational vision, because they have no investment in context or place; they are centres of expressive individualism with a truncated gospel of personal salvation and little else. Our penchant for bigness and numerical success as the sign of God's blessing ony discourages and deflects attempts to root communities of God's people deeply into neighborhoods. And until we build transformed communities there is no hope for a broken earth." Oh and while I am here, you gotta read this: Archbishop of Canterbury likes the Simpsons Posted by: Mark | 1:19 pm |
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