Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Are you tired of going to 'church' & doing the 'church thing' only to realize you're completely estranged from your local community?!

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 centers of expressive individualism with a truncated gospel of personal salvation and little else.
Alan Roxburgh

Say "NO" to being disconnected from your neighbourhood any longer.

One family we know has loved their neighbourhood in small & significant ways, especially when a neighbour underwent a tragic accident with a band saw. After organizing much care that helped the family overcome numerous challenges throughout the fall & winter the man said,

"So I'm not really religious but I don't see the miracle as being the fact that they were able to sew my hand back on, that is science nowadays. The miracle is that I live a community like this that have cared for us in this way."

And Jesus smiled...

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