outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Saturday, September 16, 2006

which is why the church

has lost its way. Mum plays cards with four other ladies in their 70s-80s. They take it in turns each Monday afternoon to host it in each other's homes. Why is my generation reluctant to open up our homes like this? We meet if we meet at all on neutral ground such as a coffee shop or club or bar. Church too functions as a club. I worship God on neutral ground,. Bible studies are good but the focus is always on the Bible and very little is on the human things that brings the group together. God doesn't want to have himself and his word discussed outside the currency, relevancy and context of his people. When loners turn up at church they are looking for God to notice them. God put his believers there to do his work for him but so few of them know what to do. My Church if i had one would not meet in the church building. We would meet in homes like Jesus used to do with Mary and Martha and Paul at Lydia's.

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