Church in reverse

From my notes at the recent Anglican minister’s retreat:
“I am convinced that our job is not to get the community into the church, but to get the church into the community”.
Unfortunately I think it sounds easier than it really is…
The Red Tent
[Anita Diamant]
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
[Parker J. Palmer]
The Birth of Venus
[Sarah Dunant]
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
[Patrick M. Lencioni]
New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today's Church
[Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove]
The Trouble with Paris Participant's Guide
[Mark Sayers]
Breath
[Tim Winton]
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
[N. T. Wright]
Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith
[Richard J. Foster]
Dirt Music : A Novel
[Tim Winton]
The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time
[Tom Sine]
Justice in the Burbs: Being the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
[Will Samson, Lisa Samson]
Jack: A Life of C.S. Lewis
[George Sayer]
Gould's Book of Fish
[Richard Flanagan]
A Thousand Splendid Suns
[Khaled Hosseini]
Signs of Emergence: A Vision for Church That Is Always Organic/Networked/Decentralized/Bottom-Up/Communal/Flexible/Always Evolving (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
[Kester Brewin]
What Happens in Holy Communion?
[Michael Welker]
Baptist Sacramentalism (Studies in Baptist History and Thought)
[N/a N/a]
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
[Lesslie Newbigin]
Australian Heartlands: Making space for hope in the suburbs
[Brendan Gleeson]

From my notes at the recent Anglican minister’s retreat:
“I am convinced that our job is not to get the community into the church, but to get the church into the community”.
Unfortunately I think it sounds easier than it really is…
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