What We Say In Public
How does what we say impact our listeners? Does it engage some? Exclude others? How can we be more sensitive to including everyone in earshot?
Walk a Mile In Their Shoes
Have you been following this?
There's some great discussions going on in this blog series surrounding the 33 exercises from Portable Faith: Taking Church to the Community, which released at the beginning of the month. So far we've covered What If Your Church Burned Down?, Community Stations and Would You Let Your Families Intermix?
So this week...
From Portable Faith:
Most of us believe that the Bible was written with to convey God’s intended meaning, yet we may not always stop to ...
Would you let your families intermix with someone from this group?
1. I am likely to interact with someone from this group in passing, without any discomfort. 2. I would be comfortable and likely to pursue friendship with someone from this group and maintain it, allowing our families to intermix.
Don’t Try to Be Shane Claiborne
I'm trusting that will lead to the right outcome for them, to having some more of God's heart, whether they look like Shane Claiborne or not
Community Stations: An Idea for Focusing on the People Who Share Your Community
One way you could do this?
A few times a year, create "community stations" in your sanctuary using tables displaying items like local newspapers, city phone books, photos, directories of school staff or city personnel, calendars and so forth?. Then, during the service, invite people to these stations and ask them to spend a few minutes reflecting on or praying for the people and groups represented by the information.