The last Dwelling Place worship gathering was more than three months ago, now. And lately my thinking about that has been undergoing a shift.
At the Emergent Convention two months ago, Brian McLaren said “The emerging church is not about emerging into a new style of worship. It’s about a new way of understanding the gospel.” At the time, I knew that was a big thought, but it’s taken me two months to start unpacking it for myself. (And I’ve only started.)
More and more, I think he’s right. And if he’s right, then starting a new worship service, like Dwelling Place, may be the wrong place to “emerge”. The worship will come later. Instead, I may need to focus on finding a community of folks who are trying to think about the gospel in new ways, and just start “living” with them some.
Maybe that’s what I’ve been doing through blogs and email.
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