Emerging from the potting shed
Tom Brackett is Program Officer for Church Planting and Redevelopment for the Episcopal Church. I like his description of being in the “potting shed” for planting.
Discussions of church planting often sound like strategies for growing a multi-national profit making corporations. The potting shed is a much more organic, small scale, personal image; in a potting shed the gardener gives personal attention to the plants, rather than just planting en masse with machines and spraying them to death for a bumper but uniform and relatively tasteless crop.
Anyway, today Mr Brackett writes about the language of emerging and emergent – it’s worth alook if you are interested in such things. I am dying for Mr Brackett to employ Rev’d Hinge as his partner. (see here for Hinge and Bracket)
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I’m not so sure about that first quote. I think sometimes you can be totally into something – really wanting to do it, to the extent that you put everything into it and despite all the passion still burn out. And the second one, well that assumes a belief in God obviously and also an ability to know or detect what God is doing – how do you become aware of what things are of God’s doing and what aren’t?