Yesterday I had lunch with several Christian leaders and staff teams from across the town invited by Mission Shrewsbury.
It was great.
I got to sit by one of my favourite people in the group, a female curate from a local Anglican Church who is real quality. We had a brilliant discussion and it is really interesting how a different Church set up faces pretty well all the same issues we do. People are people, after all.
Then today I was invited to lunch by an Anglican vicar from a local Church, and we discussed a bit about local mission and got to know each other personally a bit better. It was great. it was really interesting to just chat about life a bit and find out what makes him tick.
I do wonder sometimes, whether away from all the disagreements, differing views and problems* we would do better if we just had a bit more lunch.
That is not to undermine our differences, but to secure our unity.
* I have not experienced any of those three within Mission Shrewsbury
5 comments:
I'm always up for more lunch!
I've just come across some of your contributions on a Ship Of Fools thread I happened to dip into and thus discovered your blog. It's lovely to see a you speaking appreciatively of a woman in leadership (albeit not in a related church). I think our NF churches may be missing out on a generation of gifted women (and a generation of gifted women equally missing out on aspects of leadership development)...
I would like to think I speak appreciatively of lots of women serving God.
I also see many gifted women are released into leadership ministry within our Church, so I don't really feel like we are "missing" them.
I suppose I may have a narrow perspective, coming from a church where the only "teaching" delivered by women I have experienced in recent years has been once from a woman kindly invited from a church in another stream once (fantastic) and some super teaching I access through literature/ "Christianity" magazine, online wanderings when I get a little spare time, on holidays... Can't help feeling there must be potential within our own church too. Women do serve and lead in many areas - children's work/ worship/ catering/ cleaning/ some small groups
Yep, I can understand that.
Not sure how to make this link work, but this was last Sunday
http://docs-eu.livesiteadmin.com/19f7ce42-c8eb-44df-81f8-f84cf4cdd8dc/2010-february-14th---maggie-hemp---what-does-discipleship-mean-for-me.wma
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