Tonight we had a failry consructive meeting at home church. For months now we’ve just been drifting along, with all the locomotion of a poorly organised sloth. Much of this has to do with the fact that many moons ago I was appointed “leader” of the pack, an alarm bell that only I seemed to hear.
Nevertheless there seems to be some kind of a stubborness causing us all to keep pressing on – a faint but critical determination that one day we will make this thing work (dammit!). Numbers dropped by half, and meetings went from weekly to fortnightly after several of our regulars dispersed far and wide across the countryside, but we still kept meeting. And I think our persistence is beginnig to pay off.
My father got me a book for my birthday, “Rethinking the Wineskin”. It’s about how church is meant to be, according to the New Testament Church, and how far mainstream churches of today have drifted from that. A lot of it makes sense, but I’m biased having drifted away from mainstream church myself for many of the reasons mentioned in the book. In any case, I think it will realy help us get a handle on what it is we *are*. Why we meet together, what we want to get out of it and what we want to give to God during those times. We kind of did this brain storming session and Rob wrote down a bunch of things that we all promised to strive to bring about at home church – like sharing God with each other, dedicating time for worshiping God, having good fellowship, proper communion…the list was much longer and I’ll have to get it off him. But we all got quite excited about it after that. I hope and eagerly pray that we can make this thing work (dammit!).