Friday, June 04, 2004
discovered the Bish's sermon on the diocesan website. here's a snippet:
There is a need to look again at what kind of Church we need to be to serve God’s world and to share God’s mission in that world. The conventional wisdom is that we need a “both . . and Church”. In other words we need to have confidence in our heritage, to use all the traditional tools at our disposal, have a sense of history and continuity and not sever links with the society around us. And we need to do things new things also, to be imaginative, creative and bold - “fresh ways of being Church,” as the current phrase goes. Much of this “and” will be untidy, provisional, uncomfortable for some of us. But it will be worth taking the risk, living with untidiness, pushing at the boundaries of church order, flourishing on dilemma. Think about that phrase - a Church that flourishes on dilemma.
i like the bit that talks about 'pushing at the boundaries of church order"!
There is a need to look again at what kind of Church we need to be to serve God’s world and to share God’s mission in that world. The conventional wisdom is that we need a “both . . and Church”. In other words we need to have confidence in our heritage, to use all the traditional tools at our disposal, have a sense of history and continuity and not sever links with the society around us. And we need to do things new things also, to be imaginative, creative and bold - “fresh ways of being Church,” as the current phrase goes. Much of this “and” will be untidy, provisional, uncomfortable for some of us. But it will be worth taking the risk, living with untidiness, pushing at the boundaries of church order, flourishing on dilemma. Think about that phrase - a Church that flourishes on dilemma.
i like the bit that talks about 'pushing at the boundaries of church order"!
