blah… last night with brian mclaren went well. brian was talking about justice. he had been with a group of young church leaders in burundi in the summer and this provoked him to reflect on how the gospel message that was shared in those contexts didn’t seem to have addressed issues of reconciliation and justice. at one stage rwanda was held up as an example of the success of the missionary movement and the east african revival but then the genocide happened and christians were involved – the gospel that they had heard hadn’t equipped them to love their neighbour. this caused lots of soul searching… CMS historically was involved in this part of the world so i found it particularly interesting and have a whole new set of questions. there was some great discussion around the tables and some great questions but the most encouraging is simply that emerging church is talking about issues of global and local justice. i hope that is a continuing trend. brian quoted that wonderful verse from micah
what does god require of you but to act justly love mercy and walk humbly with your god
gutted that I missed it..youngest was ill and plans went out of teh window for last night :o(
thanks though Jonny!
Good to hear justice issues are on the agenda for the emerging church. Has anyone posted about this?
Emerging Church and Justice…?
…It mattered little that HIS EMERGENCE Brian Mclaren was the guest – what mattered was that for the first time since I have been going, justice was on the agenda. It was flirted with by Kester Brewin with his definitions of ‘dirt’ but Justice was t…