Barker: Chapter 13
I think one of the major problem of the Church in Europe today, or at least in France and belgium, is to address the youth, and especially the one that include themselves in a certain youth subculture that adults don't understand. I think it would be interesting for the church to have a closer look at those subcultures and the youth of today in a way to understand what their conception of the church is and to be able to include them and walk with them.
Barker: Chapter 14
IN this last chapter, we see that Cultural studies englobe many things like politics, systems of power, public spheres etc... Those are things that the church should take in consideration as well in its thinking about its environment, the places it wants to settle and the people it wants to address. A church is never addressing an individual in itself because that individual is part of a wider group of people, with specific heritage, ethnicity, sub-culture, ...
Smith: Chapter 5
It is important to realize how the modern evangelical church has set aside any kind of tradition and practices of the ancient churches (Catholic or Orthodox). I think a way for the church today is to find a common ground were those traditions and practices can meet our contemporary culture. I am fascinated by monastic disciplines and think that my generation is coming back more and more to those. The church should be ready to take its place on the history line, to be aware of where it comes from and what formed it to be able to face the future and impact it's surrounding.
Gibbs and Bolger: Chapter 4
I think that the split between sacred and secular is something damagable to our spirituality today. As it is written in this chapter, this heritage from modernity has divided our life in different sphere that are now difficult to put back together. It is my search today to re-unite my entire self, and I think that this process should be personal as well as communal in order to be able to live a community life that embrace every aspect of our lives. People are in search of wholeness and integrity,...and the church has to be the place where they can find that.
I think one of the major problem of the Church in Europe today, or at least in France and belgium, is to address the youth, and especially the one that include themselves in a certain youth subculture that adults don't understand. I think it would be interesting for the church to have a closer look at those subcultures and the youth of today in a way to understand what their conception of the church is and to be able to include them and walk with them.
Barker: Chapter 14
IN this last chapter, we see that Cultural studies englobe many things like politics, systems of power, public spheres etc... Those are things that the church should take in consideration as well in its thinking about its environment, the places it wants to settle and the people it wants to address. A church is never addressing an individual in itself because that individual is part of a wider group of people, with specific heritage, ethnicity, sub-culture, ...
Smith: Chapter 5
It is important to realize how the modern evangelical church has set aside any kind of tradition and practices of the ancient churches (Catholic or Orthodox). I think a way for the church today is to find a common ground were those traditions and practices can meet our contemporary culture. I am fascinated by monastic disciplines and think that my generation is coming back more and more to those. The church should be ready to take its place on the history line, to be aware of where it comes from and what formed it to be able to face the future and impact it's surrounding.
Gibbs and Bolger: Chapter 4
I think that the split between sacred and secular is something damagable to our spirituality today. As it is written in this chapter, this heritage from modernity has divided our life in different sphere that are now difficult to put back together. It is my search today to re-unite my entire self, and I think that this process should be personal as well as communal in order to be able to live a community life that embrace every aspect of our lives. People are in search of wholeness and integrity,...and the church has to be the place where they can find that.
Gibbs and Bolger: Chapter 5
The conception of community is quite different in the emmerging church as it is in my church. Even if there is a good sense of community, I am not sure that most of us see the church as a way of life in stead of as a weekly meeting(s) form. What I would like to start in my city is an intentional community that is rooted in social contacts and that walks together in seeking the kingdom of God. I don't think this kind of community can be started from a classical form of church...howeverm I think that people can be part of it and at the same time attend their congregational church.
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