postmodernbible is a new blog started by pete phillips. i met pete a few years back. he is a lecturer at cliff college which has some great people at it and is doing its bit to help the methodists get missional! i expect this to be a good blog with some meaty stuff on it….

pete has added an article on future shapes of church (word file) in which he concludes:

The future shape of church then, whether that church meets in a building or not has to be fundamentally community. Indeed, I would go further and say that it must really be family. Our society has led to the destruction of the extended family. Christianity rejects this and provides us with new extended families. We need to live as families. We need to worship and be church as families – not huge congregations of anonymous Christians watching professional performers masquerading as worship leaders. Church must not only be shaped as the domus ecclesiae – church must be God’s people at home!

and he has even put up the powerpoint slides to go with it (2.5 mb)