Recap of February 26th conversation

We had eight at the cohort conversation on February 26. After agreeing that we had pretty much finished discussing The Shack at our January meeting, at least for the being, we turned to a discussion of JD’s post on Talking and Walking (see the second January 30th post, below).

There are so many attractional churches today, what’s an emergent-minded person to do? Should one try to work from within to make attractional churches more missional? Should we leave our attractional churches and start new missional fellowships? Should we stay at our attractional churches and just try to be missional on an individual basis? If you know our group, you won’t be surprised that the consensus answer was “yes” to each question. Each of us will find different ways to be missional, and we need to remember that God uses all churches in different ways. It is too easy to be smug about your current church, without remembering that (hopefully) we are on a journey and that we’ll all be in a different, more mature place tomorrow than we are today.

If you were at the meeting, please feel free to add your comments, and if you weren’t there, please feel free to add your comments – this way the conversation will continue…

Next time we’ll take up our discussion of Phyllis Tickle’s new book, The Great Emergence. See the February 23rd post below for more information…

The Great Emergence

This week, if we wrap up our discussion from last month, we'll begin a discussion of Phyllis Tickle's The Great Emergence. Check out this link for a free download of part of the book, a free discussion guide and some video clips of Phyllis discussing the major points of her book.

You don't need to run out and get the book before Thursday in order to participate in our conversation. You can download and read the excerpt (it is on "The Book" tab at the bottom of the page) and/or listen to the videos. See you Thursday!

Next Meeting February 26

We will meet next Thursday, February 26, at ESCAPE, 600 E Bethany, in Allen, at 7:00 PM. We will continue our discussion from last month and if time permits we'll discuss Phyllis Tickle's new book The Great Emergence. You do not have to read the book in order to participate in our discussions. Just come and share in the conversation.