9 Months... no Post
If you have not given up on our incredible lack of blog posts, then thanks for sticking around. Life has been busy, although we are still finding time to enjoy ourselves. We are back into the school year, both working full-time, and both doing courses as well.
We will try and keep letting you know what going on, but here's some reading if you're up for it. I'm going on a retreat tomorrow with some pastors and we are spending the morning looking at an article by Henri Nouwen. The article is posted here and is well worth the read if you have the time.
peace.
posted by Jamie and Ally Bay @ 4:50 AM
4 Comments:
Lucky I didn't delete this feed from my Google Reader in the last 9 mths of silence isn't it:)
Nice to hear you are still alive and even taking the time to post. Hope the retreat is fun - or maybe peaceful.
How is the Jump Jam going?
Dorothy
Hey Jamie,
Thanks for the article link. I love reading Nouwen...always refreshing!
I like the movement he proposes, from solitude to community to ministry...though I wonder if we, as Evangelicals, tend to jump from solitude ("quiet time") to ministry without ever really entering true community.
I think Evangelicals generally make room for God in solitude, but struggle with meeting God together. Even when we gather, we seem to do so as an aggregate of individuals rather than a dynamic body in union with Christ and one another by the Spirit.
It's interesting that while we have examples in the NT of Jesus in solitude, we don't have many example of disciples in solitude...they seem to experience Jesus usually in community with one another, gathered at Jesus' feet.
I'm not trying to downplay the importance of solitude...I'm simply heightening the tension between the solitude-community dialectic...
Patrick
Patrick, I think you're exactly right!
In the church setting, it is fascinating to see that the times we describe as 'community' (Sunday Mornings, Life Gatherings), are usually nothing more than a collection of 'individuals' gathering together. And then on Sunday's we have them sit and stare at the back of each others heads while one person talks, and then they leave.
Surely community must be more than a group of people doing solitude in the same room at the same time?
But at the same time most communities in our world have become a collection of individuals. Maybe it is true that community is never a goal but rather the result of a group of people with a common purpose.
But that brings us back to the conversation we are having on your blog!
Yes!
It also brings up, for me, questions about the relationship between the church as the people of God on the one hand, and the ekklesia gathering on the other.
Do we confuse both by trying to do them simultaneously?
Great discussion, thanks! I also responded to your comment on my blog.
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